Software Engineer II, Co-op and Marketplaces

Google's software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products handle information at massive scale and extend well beyond web search. We seek engineers who bring fresh ideas from areas such as information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile. As a software engineer, you will work on a project critical to Google’s needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our business grow and evolve. We need engineers who are versatile, display leadership qualities, and are enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Retail Advertiser Experiences (RAX) team is responsible for one of the most critical areas in online advertising—retail. Retail Ads bring Google multiple billions in business, and our mission is to understand retailers' needs and build advertising products that deliver more value to them and to Google. The Cooperative Advertising (Coop) team is developing the core infrastructure that powers Retail Media Networks (RMN) within Google Ads. Our platform empowers retailers to partner with brands to run Google Ads campaigns that drive high-value traffic directly to their storefronts, while seamlessly sharing conversion data.

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Evolve Google Ads architecture to support complex brand-retailer relationships and scale the systems to manage massive global traffic.
• Build solutions end-to-end, addressing critical backend issues such as engineering a resilient, low-latency streaming pipeline and unifying measurement infrastructure.
• Drive user-facing innovations in the Google Ads Frontend.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience with full-stack development.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (preferred).
• Experience in online advertising or search quality (preferred).
• Expertise in experiment definition and analysis (preferred).
• Experience with large-scale ML systems or LLMs (preferred).
• Proficiency with large-scale streaming and batch processing systems (preferred).

Google is an engineering company at heart, hiring people with a broad set of technical skills ready to take on technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. Engineers at Google revolutionize search, work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications, and new platforms for developers globally. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.