Senior Software Engineer, OTT Media Platform, YouTube

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the OTT Media Platform team, you will work across the YouTube stack to build infrastructure, features, tooling, and processes to enable MediaCos to onboard and bring their content to YouTube. That includes development in YouTube studio, internal tools, quality systems, content infrastructure, and metrics and dashboards.

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

• Develop back-end services and data systems (largely in C++).
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Offline batch pipelines for both publishing data to indexing systems and processing petascale logs from YouTube data warehouses.
• Partner with data scientists in writing SQL queries and Python scripts for deep data analysis, and co-development with full-stack Engineer teams in facilitating feature/experiment launches and conducting end-to-end logging instrumentation.
• Work closely with cross functional teams including Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, Business Operations Management, Marketing, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in Data Acquisition, Web Applications, User Experience, Enterprise Applications, Flume, Data Processing, Navigating Ambiguity, C++.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.