Engineering Manager, YouTube OTT

1 Month ago • 8-11 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager for YouTube OTT, you'll lead a team in managing and publishing content to core YouTube systems. Responsibilities include owning storage infrastructure and workflows, building tools in YouTube Studio for media companies, establishing metrics for data quality, and integrating with third-party metadata providers. You'll also be responsible for hiring, developing a high-performing engineering team, and fostering a collaborative culture. The role involves onboarding media companies, acquiring premium TV content, modeling and enriching metadata, packaging it for publishing, and managing integration with third-party data providers. This includes working with large-scale projects across multiple international sites and managing significant product budgets. You will work on improving data quality and exploring open-source ID spaces like EIDR.

Must have:

8+ years software development experience
3+ years technical leadership
2+ years people management
Ownership of storage infrastructure
Building tools in YouTube Studio
Managing 3P metadata providers

Good to have:

Data Acquisition
Web Applications
User Experience
Enterprise Applications
Flume
Data Processing
C++
Building new products
Enterprise software experience
Data reconciliation or Knowledge Graph
Operational automation

10 skills required

10 skills required for this role

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java

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user-experience-ux

networking

talent-acquisition

user-interface

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in any of the following: Data Acquisition, Web Applications, User Experience, Enterprise Applications, Flume, Data Processing, Boq, Navigating Ambiguity, C++.
Experience in building a new product, including rapid iteration/prototyping with the ability to pivot based on user feedback.
Experience with enterprise-facing software for providers in double sided marketplaces (e.g., Uber, Airbnb, eBay, etc.).
Experience with quality problems with Third-party data and defining metrics.
Experience with data infrastructure with data reconciliation or Knowledge Graph.
Experience with operational automation.

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.

YouTube (YT) OTT brings traditional Movies, Shows, and Sports to YouTube.

In this role, you will be responsible for onboarding media companies, acquiring their premium TV content and metadata, modeling it, understanding and enriching it, packaging it, and ultimately publishing it to serving systems.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of storage infrastructure, workflow, and pipelines for managing and publishing content to YT core systems.
Build and manage tools in YouTube Studio for Media to manage their content and grow their businesses on YT.
Establish carrots and sticks to influence Media companies to provide quality videos and metadata on YT. Manage integration with Third-party (3P) metadata providers.
Define, measure, and move metrics around data quality and explore open-source ID spaces like Entertainment Identifiers Registry (EIDR) and how to move the industry to improve data quality.
Hire and grow a performing engineering team and set a healthy engineering culture rooted in psychological safety and collaboration.