Waterloo office
“Google is committed to delivering exceptional value to our advertising customers, and Waterloo is a leader in advertising innovation at Google.”
- Adrian, Software Engineer, Google Waterloo
What's it like to work in Waterloo?
Our engineers and product visionaries in Waterloo imagine, develop, and manage a wide range of global products and have an outstanding track record of delivering innovative products and services including such wildly popular services like Mobile Search. A few of the products under development and evolution at Waterloo today include business-focused Adsense/Adwords products such as Google Conversion Optimizer and Google's Doubleclick AdExchange, core consumer services including as Mobile Gmail, and exciting projects in Google Chrome and Google Chrome OS.
You can find our mobile products leading the way in their use of advanced web and native capabilities across the newest platforms such as Android, iPhone, and Blackberry/J2ME, while also delivering high-quality service to the mass market of mobile devices. Products from Google Waterloo touch many millions of consumers and bring value to a vast array of Google customers every single day. You can check out what’s new in the Google Mobile Blog or hear from one of our product managers about our Blackberry Gmail application.
Google Engineers are experts in a very wide and constantly-expanding set of programming languages, design patterns, development methodologies, and groundbreaking technical areas of research interest. "Waterlooglers" are experts in high-performing, large-scale architectures (in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and mobile development), networking and wireless, databases, web and client development, and languages that range from AJAX/HTML5 to C++, from Perl, Python, and Java to Lisp. Technology is not what we do – it's what we love.
The challenge for you is to come to Google Waterloo and push yourself to help us find the next billion-dollar idea (or more!). At Google you can truly realize your vision to innovate, create, and deliver exciting and value-added products and services to billions of people.
What do we work on? Well, it's quite a range of exciting projects and products...
Chrome and Chrome OS development of next-generation browser and operating system environments
At Google we believe the browser is destined to be an even richer, simpler, and more powerful application delivery platform – and much of what we do and invent is based on creating this future. Our ongoing efforts with HTML5 applications that are browser-delivered work offline and online and deliver much of the capabilities of a native application while still retaining web-deployment and iteration abilities show this commitment. At Waterloo we are proud to be part of the Google commitment to delivering a superior browser to consumers, and in delivering an operating system environment optimized for the web experience. You can learn more about the work underway at Google in Chrome and Chrome OS at the Official Google Chrome Blog, Official Google Blog - Introducing the Chrome OS, Google Chrome OS FAQ, or Wikipedia - Google Chrome and Wikipedia - Google Chrome OS.
Mobile consumer applications – today and beyond
Google consumers and businesses rely on a range of Google Mobile Apps and mobile infrastructure that our engineers at Google Waterloo are constantly imagining and developing – including apps such as Mobile Gmail and Calendar – with more exciting applications connecting people in new and exciting ways under development. Our engineers in Waterloo are hard at work right now on these groundbreaking new applications yet to launch to the public that Waterloo product and engineering innovators helped to imagine and develop. Read more about leading-edge mobile web development in our technical blog series.
AdSense & AdExchange – advertiser and publisher value creation
Google AdSense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn revenue from them. The Google Waterloo team is proud to work with a worldwide team that is constantly finding and delivering new ways to provide value to advertisers and publishers alike. Google Conversion Optimizer alone creates more than $1B USD in revenue annually.
Google's Doubleclick AdExchange is an online marketplace where advertisers, agencies, publishers, and ad networks can easily buy and sell display advertising, impression by impression.
Infrastructure on a grand scale – services for the whole internet
In Waterloo we manage the smooth operation of several main components of Google's global advertising network, as well as infrastructure projects in support of mobile applications like Gmail and Mobile Search. In a nutshell, we provide reliable service to millions of users around the world. Using and developing cutting-edge technologies, we also tackle challenging measurement, reporting, network configuration, administration, and stability issues on a global scale.
Processing a bid in a real-time auction across 5 continents under 500ms is interesting. Processing hundreds of millions of bids in a real-time auction across 5 continents under 500ms is brain twisting. In Waterloo, we create infrastructure that is required to handle global ad networks, mobile search, and Gmail for mobile.
