Staff Software Engineer, YouTube

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Product Management (PM), User Experience and Research (UX/R), Program Management (PgM), Data Science (DS), and others—and executive stakeholders across YouTube (YT) Ads, YouTube (YT) Organic, and broader Ads teams to deliver a multi-year roadmap for these areas and launch features improving the ad viewer experience. You will also participate in early-stage ad product definition and full lifecycle project development.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Manage the roadmap for YouTube Living Room business generation, focusing on increasing the ad business-per-hour of YouTube on TV screens (e.g., via quality levers, inventory utilization, or making measurement accurate for brand and direct-response ads).
• Improve the ad experience (e.g., less disruptive ads with fewer interruptions according to video content).
• Guide the quality sub-pod, and mentor engineers to support their growth while fostering a team culture.
• Define goals, prioritize, engage with partners to unblock your team, and make progress on objectives and key results (OKRs).
• Collaborate and manage alignment with partner teams across YouTube Ads (e.g., Quality, Infrastructure) and broader Ads organizations (e.g., Measurement), as well as with cross-functional partners (e.g., Product Management, User Experience/Research, Program Management, and Data Science).

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or C++.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience in YouTube Ads quality and infrastructure.
• Experience in measurement (both brand and direct-response) or bidding.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.