Staff Software Engineer, YouTube, OTT MediaCo, Onboarding
Job Summary
Job Description
This Staff Software Engineer role at YouTube focuses on bringing premium movies, shows, news, and sports content to the platform. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy and execution for a team, ensuring content quantity and quality, managing premium features, promoting content, understanding subscriber acquisition and performance, defining and tracking key metrics, and building a high-performing engineering team. The role requires extensive experience in software development, large-scale infrastructure, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will be a leader with a strong understanding of the OTT media landscape and a passion for improving the YouTube experience for users and content partners.
Must have:
- 8+ years software development experience
- 3+ years building large-scale infrastructure
- Lead technical strategy and execution
- Manage premium features and content
- Build a high-performing engineering team
Good to have:
- Data Acquisition
- Web Applications
- User Experience
- Enterprise Applications
- Data Processing
- C++
7 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field 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 building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in any of the following : Data Acquisition, Web Applications, User Experience, Enterprise Applications, Data Processing, Boq, Navigating Ambiguity, C++.
About the job
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.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
- Lead the technical strategy and execution for a team focused on bringing the world's premium movies, shows, news, and sports to YouTube. Be accountable for the quantity and quality of this content.
- Be accountable for the growth of MediaCos on YouTube.
- Manage premium features, promote content, understand subscriber acquisition and performance.
- Define, measure, and move metrics to understand the opportunity and health of MediaCos on YouTube.
- Hire and grow a high-performing engineering team. Set a healthy engineering culture rooted in psychological safety and collaboration.
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