Software Engineer Manager II, Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience with technical strategy setting, road map planning, stakeholder management.
• Experience mentoring and growing individual contributors and technology leads.
• Experience in content delivery, media streaming, video playback or distributed networks.

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.

As an Engineering Manager on Playback Control, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for infrastructure that provides server side control of video playback across all YouTube playback types that is VOD, Shorts, Live, DRM etc. In this role, you will enhance playback capabilities and performance through system optimization, problem debugging, and collaboration with server, client, networking and protocol teams to develop new capabilities, while contributing through coding, metrics analysis, project ideation, scoping, execution, roadmap development, partner team collaboration, and presenting updates to leadership.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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 and deliver critical projects related to YouTube's playback control and performance, demonstrating and driving significant technical impact.
• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals, aligning strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area.
• Collaborate with partner teams across streaming and delivery, live infrastructure, mobile and web players, data science, product and others to co-ordinate roadmaps, and oversee execution and delivery.
• Manage a team of software engineers, working on client and server side infrastructure in service of playback.