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Job overview
Google seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead full-stack engineering for advertising products, including workflows incorporating generative AI. The role involves managing and coaching engineers, guiding system design and technical strategy, and partnering with product, UX, and engineering teams. Candidates need substantial software development and technical leadership experience, with application development experience in one or more listed programming languages.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of experience in software development.
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3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
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Experience building web, mobile, or desktop applications in languages like Dart, C#, JavaScript, Kotlin, Ruby, Go, Swift, and Objective-C.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
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People management experience in a technical environment.
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Experience managing front-end engineering teams or driving front-end technical strategy.
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 Google Ad Manager keeps the open web thriving by providing the industry-leading platform publishers rely on to monetize content. We power high-stakes direct reservations and real-time programmatic auctions globally. As a major driver of Google's revenue, Ad Manager processes massive transaction volumes annually. The Frontend team builds the full-stack product (schema, APIs, web UI, and offline pipelines) used daily by publishers. We are actively integrating LLM and generative AI capabilities directly into these workflows, making this an ideal role to drive massive, real-world AI impact.
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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Manage and coach a team of 6–10 software engineers across levels. Foster a collaborative culture and actively guide career growth, design leadership, and engineering craft.
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Lead full-stack system design from databases to agentic workflows. Review designs and code, advocating for sustainable patterns that reduce technical debt.
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Partner closely with Product Management and UX bringing strong product intuition to translate business goals into well-scoped, prioritized engineering roadmaps.
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Serve as a primary technical connector across other Ad Manager engineering, AdSense, AdMob, and other partner teams.
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Balance rapid feature delivery with platform reliability, while empowering the team to build and leverage generative AI and agentic capabilities.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
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How this job compares
Set against the 8,608 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$207–300K/yr
- New York median$171–250K/yr465 salary ranges
- US median$150–250K/yr6,429 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $254K, is 18% above the New York median midpoint ($215K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 659 open Software Engineering jobs in New York and 8,608 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- salesforce.com, inc.24 open
- PwC18 open
- Google (this employer)16 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,608 postings).
- Education
- 2,254 of the 8,608 open Software Engineering jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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