Staff Software Engineer, Search Local Ads Data Platform

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The LVL Ads Data Platform provides business location data, calls data, service area business data, and its derived location and calls intelligence to the Google Ads ecosystem. It is the basis for all location-based and call ads. Your goal is to make location information accessible and used universally by the Ads ecosystem.

The data that you manage encompasses a portion of Google's business across the various Google Ads networks (Search, Display, YouTube, and Maps), contributing to $XX billion of business with headroom and future growth opportunities. You will work on serving, data infrastructure, or quality infrastructure and unlock new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
  
• Design, architect, and develop the next generation serving infrastructure for loading and indexing information in Ads.
• Leverage AI to generate new additional content for our local businesses and determine which ad should serve.
• Work on projects spanning a range of technical domains including feature engineering, backend pipelines, low latency infrastructure, advertiser reporting, and production stability.