Staff Software Engineer, Search, Notifications Marketplace

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++ or Python.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with system design, software engineering, infrastructure design, C++, Java.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience working with large teams, coordinating across multiple partners and driving consensus.
• Experience with trade-offs on quality and user experience.
• Experience with designing and delivering on high scale, high quality infra and quality systems.
• Experience with data analysis, experiment design, AI algorithms, monitoring systems.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and create clarity from chaos.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

We are pivoting to be an AI notification product and building the notifications platform as a true marketplace which is a self-learning reward based system that optimizes for the best notification user experience by picking among competing producers. Marketplace incorporates the economics including rewards and penalties for the right incentives, doing the right thing for the user (which is the consumer) while ensuring and optimizing for the opportunity cost on a highly visible interrupting surface like Notifications.

In this role, you will build a marketplace for high-quality, timely Search Notification corpus and scale them to device deliveries there by growing Search.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work on full stack and build the user experience, reward modeling and the incentive structure for the Notification Marketplace.
• Own the user visible end-to-end experience including notification optimization for the tray, pre-click, post click experience.
• Build quality systems and auto-raters to monitor and measure the quality of the product experience, automatically deploying safety and takedown mechanisms for bad content
• Build the realtime systems for the economics of the marketplace to play out and build incentives and insights that all of Search can leverage for driving growth.
• Design, build and innovate on the integrated platform used for horizontal inventory indexing, user fanout and delivery across notifications and related surfaces like iGA Live Activities, Android RON, Inbox.