Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++.
- 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- Experience with production systems and storage systems.
- Experience with distributed processing.
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.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Experience working with streaming products in FlumeC++.
- Experience with large-scale data processing.
- Experience with Bigtable, Colossus, Spanner, or Pubsub.
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 mission is to build the next-generation Conversion Infrastructure that powers Google’s flagship advertising and analytics products. We are undertaking a major modernization effort to replace multiple legacy, large-scale systems with a single, unified infrastructure capable of processing trillions of events per day for conversion measurement, attribution, and modeling.
We are looking for a Tech Lead Manager to help design and build this next-generation data processing infrastructure. In this role, you will leverage and extend Google’s advanced back-end technologies to build highly scalable, cost-effective systems that unlock new capabilities for millions of users.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Act as a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) for a sub-team of approximately 6 software engineers, managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Shape the long-term technical goal and architectural strategy for our core data processing stack, with the flexibility to drive both infrastructure and product-focused initiatives.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams—including Product Management, Program Management, and Privacy working groups—to translate complex requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Design, develop, and evolve our high-scale, foundational data processing infrastructure to support next-generation features.
