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Software Engineer, Youtube Ads Measurement and Optimization

Google
Mountain View, California, US
Full-time

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.

Find out if this opportunity is a good fit by reading all of the information that follows below.

The Youtube optimization team focuses on delivering best performances to the advertisers advertising on Youtube. Each advertiser has a business goal to achieve.

That goal could be getting most conversions given their budget, most clicks given a limit on cost-per-click, create awareness about their brand, or many other more advanced settings.

Our team is responsible for the backend systems that power all these optimizations.

We manage advertisers’ spend and translate their business goals into real-time decision making on which ads to show. To achieve this goal we develop large-scale optimization systems by utilizing a variety of different tools such as mathematical and statistical modeling, auction theory, risk management, and machine learning (deep networks, Bayesian, etc.).

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google.

We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics.

Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results.

We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Write product or system development code.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug / track / resolve by analyzing the source of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Develop and implement optimization algorithms, and infrastructure.
  • Build machine learning models to provide signals to optimization algorithms.
  • Understand the Youtube ads ecosystem and come up with great ideas to improve display ads products, implement those ideas, and test them with our state-of-the-art experimentation infrastructure.

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