Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Backend Platforms Team

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• - Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• - Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• - Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• - Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• - Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• - Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• - Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience with full stack development across back-end (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or C++) and front-end (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, or equivalent).
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of people management experience managing engineering organizations.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams, developing joint plans and road maps, and managing alignments.
• Proven track record working in a development environment, using Generative AI, and making judgments on trade-offs between short-term benefits and long-term vision.

About The Job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
Display & Video 360 (DV3) is Google’s market-leading, programmatic Demand Side Platform (DSP), serving Google’s advertising clients and agencies. DV3 optimizes ad campaigns across Google’s owned and operated ad inventory (e.g., YouTube, DemandGen, and more) as well as non-Google digital publishers.
The DV3 Backend Platform Engineering team is responsible for building the system and product that supports the entire DV3 serving, audience and optimization infrastructure, and for all of the customers and partners facing Connect TV (CTV) experiences. As the Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead an engineering team supporting development, infrastructure improvements, managing customer issues, and overall technical direction.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $262,000-$365,000 + 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

• Manage the DV3 Backend Platform engineering team, setting direction and providing technical leadership.
• Work closely with cross-functional leads to set the strategy and goal for key growth areas like Social and CTV and influence partners and senior Technical Leads in Ads, YouTube, Search, Quality, etc.
• Ensure the long-term health, maintainability, and evolution of the DV3 Backend serving, audience and optimization infrastructure to support DV3’s continuous growth.
• Identify key technical risks and opportunities, evaluate complex trade-offs, and drive consensus on technical direction among senior stakeholders and technical leads.
• Mentor team members to develop and grow their skills, and shape the high performance culture.

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