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Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager, Ads Serving Infrastructure

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

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Job overview

The Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager will help evolve the Search Ads Serving infrastructure that powers ads across Search and related Google properties. The role focuses on preparing the serving stack for AI and large language model capabilities, enabling launches through APIs, testing frameworks, and tools, and improving system performance and operations at scale. The team collaborates across Ads and with Google Research and DeepMind.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

C++ ProgrammingLarge-Scale InfrastructureDistributed SystemsNetworksCompute TechnologiesStorageHardware ArchitectureSoftware DesignSoftware ArchitectureSoftware TestingSoftware LaunchingData StructuresAlgorithmsTechnical LeadershipProject Team LeadershipTechnical DirectionCross-Functional CollaborationSystems IndexingServing SystemsPerformance TuningAutomation Systems

Qualifications

Bachelor's in CS or Related8+ Years C++ Experience7+ Years Infrastructure Experience5+ Years Design and Architecture ExperienceMaster's or PhD in Related Field8+ Years Data Structures and Algorithms Experience5+ Years Technical Leadership Experience3+ Years Cross-Functional Project ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience programming in C++.

  • 7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  • 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.

  • 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

  • Expertise in large systems indexing, serving, performance tuning and with automation systems and related infrastructure.

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.

As a part of the Search Ads Serving team, you will build the infrastructure that powers ads on all Search queries, including queries to Search Ads partners and owned-and-operated properties (Maps, YouTube Search, Discovery Feed, and Shopping). You will join engineers across feature teams to develop this system as it evolves to support launches, providing APIs, testing frameworks, and tools to enable developer productivity and operations. As Search pivots towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) first experiences through AI Overview and AI Mode, your focus will be to evolve the Ads Serving stack and prepare it for next-generation AI and Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities.

Google Ads is at the forefront of AI innovation, applying 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 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

  • Play a leading role in a reliable infrastructure that drives business growth.

  • Collaborate across Ads teams to understand client teams' needs, identify opportunities, and deliver impact.

  • Identify performance optimization opportunities and deliver latency/resource savings.

  • Build automation systems and related tools to operate this system at scale.

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How this job compares

Set against the 8,288 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$262–364K/yr
  • California median$190–276K/yr1,238 salary ranges
  • US median$151–250K/yr6,228 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $313K, is 36% above the California median midpoint ($230K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,695 open Software Engineering jobs in California and 8,288 across the US. 10% 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; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,490 postings).
Education
2,240 of the 8,288 open Software Engineering jobs (27%) 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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