Software Engineer II, Co-op and Marketplaces

Zürich · Posted Oct 14

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Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Category: Software Engineering

Co-op software engineer role in Google Ads Coop team focused on Retail Ads and RMN infrastructure in Zürich, Switzerland.

What they are looking for

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Location: Zürich, Switzerland

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.

Retail Advertiser Experiences (RAX) 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 the retailers' needs and build advertising products that would 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.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

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 our measurement infrastructure.

Drive user-facing innovations in the Google Ads Frontend.