Software Engineering Managergoogle Ads jobs

• Lead and mentor infrastructure engineers building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Contribute directly to code, design, and incident resolution while guiding technical direction
• Drive the Ads Infrastructure roadmap focused on scalability, reliability, and efficiency
• Define and automate standards for observability, on-call, and operational excellence
• Foster a culture of technical ownership, collaboration, and continuous improveme

• 10 or more years of experience in software engineering with at least 3 years managing teams building distributed systems
• Proven track record of leading teams operating infrastructure at scale in production
• Technical depth in cloud native systems, ideally Kubernetes and large scale service infrastructure
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to set vision, align stakeholders, and deliver through others
• Excellent communication skills and experience working across cross functional organizations

• Experience leading infrastructure teams in online advertising or large scale data driven businesses
• Background in traffic management, load balancing, or distributed caching and storage systems
• Passion for mentoring engineering leaders and building high performing global teams

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance CTR and CVR prediction models that power ad ranking and recommendation systems.
• Build and refine systems for creative understanding and user behavior modeling, enabling more accurate and context-aware engagement predictions.
• Ensure model quality and reliability by continuously monitoring performance, calibrating predictions, and addressing data drift or delayed feedback.
• Actively participate and work with other leads to set the long term direction for the team, plan and oversee engineering designs and project execution.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-engineering stakeholders.

• Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale Ads delivery and optimization systems.
• 3+ years of experience building CTR/CVR systems, content understanding, or behavior modeling systems.
• Significant experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages like Python, Go, Scala, C++ or similar.
• Knowledge of metric design, experimentation methodologies, and large-scale data analysis.

• Experience designing and productionizing optimization algorithms in an ad serving platform and/or other marketplaces.
• Experience with state-of-the-art control systems, reinforcement learning algorithms.

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
• Work on scalable, high-availability systems used across Unity’s ads ecosystem
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data teams to deliver new features
• Improve performance, observability, and cost-efficiency of backend systems
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

• Experience building backend services at scale
• Proficiency in Golang,and Google Cloud
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (Kubernetes, Ray, etc.)
• Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability

• Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or real-time bidding systems
• Background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform)
• Familiarity with networking, caching, or real-time data pipelines

• Relocation support is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

• Own and drive the near-term execution and technical strategy for the team
• Collaborate internally with other core Unity engineering and graphics teams
• Communicate your team’s vision and progress internally and externally
• Support the members of your engineering team as they advance in their career goals

• Experience developing and managing a high-performance software engineering team
• Proven technical knowledge and experience working with AR/VR/XR platforms
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with external partners to achieve alignment on technical specifications and interdependencies
• Expertise as a software engineer, and a working familiarity with C++ and C#
• Ability to assimilate and understand a large and complex software product

• Understanding of the OpenXR standard, or a track record of working with open standards
• Familiarity with real time 3D rendering techniques and graphics APIs including Vulkan
• A passion for the future of computer games or real-time 3D experiences in a variety of settings
• Expertise leading using Agile development methodologies
• Experience leading distributed teams

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

• Proven modern C++ development skills
• Experience with Win32, Cocoa (Objective-C) or GTK
• The proven ability to foster and maintain cross-team partnerships with worldwide teams
• Native debugger experience to root-cause and solve difficult platform issues
• A passion for maintaining a rock-solid foundation while also moving the Unity Editor platform forward

• Collaborating daily with a team of senior engineers with extensive platform development experience
• From design to delivery, develop cross-platform API abstractions on Windows, macOS and Linux
• Keep the Unity Editor up-to-date on target operating systems by implementing support for new OS features and adapting to current OS design guidelines
• Support our existing users and partners by maintaining and improving our existing codebase
• Contribute to our team roadmap by working with Product Managers and partner teams worldwide to plan and deliver new authoring experiences for the Unity Editor

• C# development experience
• Postmortem debugging experience (Windows dump files, macOS/Linux core dumps)
• Installer authoring
• Performance testing experience
• Refactoring large legacy codebases

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.