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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, YouTube Ads

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Mountain View, CA, USA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer role focusing on driving long-term engineering strategy for YouTube Ads surfaces and experiences, with emphasis on large-scale full-stack systems, AI capabilities, and cross-surface consistency.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the long-term engineering strategy by incorporating organizational business priorities and technological shifts, such as new AI capabilities.
  • Own key technical decisions and make data-driven choices to guide the team through important design tradeoffs, long-term strategy, system health, and risk management.
  • Identify system hotspots to improve the organization's technical health, ensuring calculated investments remove widely-felt barriers to productivity and feature throughput.
  • Invest in growing the next generation of technical leaders through direct coaching and scalable mentorship initiatives.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure features are built consistently across different surfaces, balancing specific platform constraints to make decisions that are best for the business.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
  • 5 years of experience architecting, building, and launching large-scale digital advertising systems and platforms.

Skills

Required:Full stack developmentBack-end languages (Java, Python, GO, C++)Front-end (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS)

Benefits

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Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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