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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead Manager, Vertical Ads on Maps

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Compensation
$262–364K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead Manager to set the roadmap for Vertical Ads on Maps and guide its engineering team. The role focuses on large-scale advertising technology, collaborating with Product Managers and teams across Ads and Geo. The team aims to build engaging vertical ad experiences that help users discover relevant offers and businesses while supporting advertiser outcomes.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Distributed Systems Design, requiredScalability, requiredFault Tolerance, requiredReliability, requiredAPI Design, requiredAPI Development, requiredAlgorithms, requiredData Structures, requiredSoftware Design, requiredJava or C++, nice to haveTechnical Leadership, nice to haveTeam Bootstrapping, nice to haveTechnical Guidance, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, required8 Years Software Development Experience, required5 Years Design and Architecture Experience, required5 Years Software Testing and Launch Experience, required8 Years Data Structures and Algorithms Experience, nice to have5 Years Technical Leadership Experience, nice to have20+ Engineer Team Guidance Experience, nice to haveEnglish Proficiency, required

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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development.

  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.

  • Experience with API design and development for large-scale distributed systems.

  • Experience working with algorithms, data structures, analysis, and software design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

  • Experience bootstrapping a new team.

  • Experience providing technical guidance to a team of 20 or more engineers working on multiple areas concurrently.

  • Experience designing and implementing distributed systems.

  • Programming experience in Java or C++.

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.

Our team's mission is to accelerate vertical journeys with great ads that drive exceptional industry value and power Google’s growth.

Vertical user journeys represent a large percentage of search usage, and established projects in Travel and Vehicles have proven that, with a vertical-focused approach, we can create compelling experiences that delight users and advertisers, and deliver substantial business value. Together with Search partner teams, Google is making major bets in many verticals - providing users with rich relevant results, unique insights, and real time info about offers, pricing, and availability, and developing rich engaging ads that feel like answers and help users discover great offers and businesses in each vertical.

Google Ads is at the forefront of AI innovation, applying cutting-edge machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini to power a multi-billion dollar global business.

Our work directly impacts billions of users by protecting users from harm, improving ad quality, and optimizing campaigns for advertiser return-on-investment. We foster a culture of deep collaboration, partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind to solve complex challenges. Join us to work on state-of-the-art AI, take on problems at an unparalleled scale, and build the next generation of advertising technology.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Set the overall goal and roadmap for Vertical Ads on Maps in the coming years.

  • Provide technical guidance for the team of engineers working on Vertical Ads on Maps.

  • Develop deep technical knowledge of the system, contributing to designs and direction for the business.

  • Collaborate with the delivery of objectives and key results (OKRs) and roadmaps with Product Managers.

  • Collaborate closely with teams across Ads product area and Geo.

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How this job compares

Set against the 39,673 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$262–364K/yr
  • California median$164–244K/yr6,896 salary ranges
  • US median$133–217K/yr31,689 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $313K, is 53% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 8,503 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 39,673 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 32,700 postings).
Education
12,375 of the 39,673 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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