Software Engineering Manager, Core Media Team, YouTube

Google LLC
Mountain View, CA, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$207,000.0 - $300,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Bioinformatics Code Review CoreMedia CMS Systems Development Life Cycle Software Engineering Software Systems Backend Information Technology

Job description

  • Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization’s goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  • Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization’s goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  • Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of the multiple teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  • Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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Requirements

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain., * Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role., * Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience in leadership roles, navigating ambiguous projects and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • 2 years of experience in managing software engineering teams.
  • Experience working in the audio/video industry and backend systems.
  • Proven track record of driving cross-functional teams toward large-scale deployment of software systems.

Benefits & conditions

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.

Media algorithms organization is a mix of applied research and YouTube’s core media infrastructure at scale. The team contains Software Engineers and domain experts, focused on researching and improving the video infrastructure for audio and video quality, generative media, and transcoding. We build guardrails for YouTube’s media quality, optimizing tradeoffs between quality and scaling costs (network and resource usage), and innovating backend transcoding/processing infrastructure, to effectively serve massive amounts of video to billions of users across a wide range of devices. We build innovative YouTube features within the audio quality, automatic dubbing and live streaming space.

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 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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