
Staff Software Engineer, Infra, Ads Quality Infrastructure, Dynamo, Google Ads
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Job overview
Google seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build and improve infrastructure for Google Ads, including distributed data-processing systems and machine-learning workloads. The role focuses on scalable, reliable systems that process large datasets and support advertising serving. The engineer will lead architectural improvements, guide engineering practices, mentor teammates, and collaborate across teams to optimize low-latency indexing and serving of product and offer metadata.
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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
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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5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
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Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
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Experience in low-level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).
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Experience designing and implementing infrastructure solutions.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
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3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
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Experience in C++ and distributed backend systems architecting solutions that process massive datasets at low latency.
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Experience building data extraction and transformation platforms or working with machine learning infrastructure.
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Experience working across engineering domains including e-commerce, shopping, or digital advertising.
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Experience modernizing legacy architecture, driving migrations, and ensuring production reliability with cross-functional partner teams.
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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
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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Lead architectural improvements for next-generation incremental data infrastructure, focusing on reducing system complexity and improving reliability.
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Design and build highly scalable systems, architecting distributed data processing pipelines that extract and transform massive datasets to power advertising serving systems.
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Drive software engineering best practices and system design while mentoring team members and ensuring production health.
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Develop and scale frameworks that support artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads, including offline embedding generation and model inference.
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Partner with cross-functional teams to optimize how product and offer metadata is indexed and served with low latency.
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How this job compares
Set against the 40,832 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$207–300K/yr
- California median$165–246K/yr7,688 salary ranges
- US median$135–218K/yr32,472 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $254K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,560 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 40,832 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- 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 33,318 postings).
- Education
- 14,022 of the 40,832 open Software Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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