Staff Software Engineer, Google Ads Data Hub Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience in the field of computer science.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related technical field.
• Experience with privacy-preserving technologies such as differential privacy, federated learning, or secure multi-party computation.
• Experience with large-scale data processing systems and SQL-based technologies like Google BigQuery.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms and software design.
• Familiarity with machine learning and statistical analysis.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and with cross-functional teams with excellent problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills.

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 Staff Software Engineer on the Ads Data Hub team, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing innovative strategies and algorithms to enhance privacy protections, usability, and functionality. Your work will directly contribute to the evolution of privacy-preserving technologies in the advertising ecosystem. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on areas such as SQL instrumentation and runtime filtering, machine learning, advanced statistical functions, and differential privacy.

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

• Develop and implement strategies and algorithms for improving privacy protections in Ads Data Hub.
• Design and build privacy-centric solutions, including differential privacy-based checks for aggregation and data joins with first-party customer data.
• Conduct thorough analysis and simulations to evaluate the effectiveness of privacy-preserving features.
• Implement and launch privacy-enhancing features, including differential privacy noise protection, to strike a balance between data security and usability for external advertisers, agencies, and partners.
• Contribute to the development of differential privacy aggregation algorithms in Google SQL and BigQuery SQL engine.