Software Engineering Manager, YouTube Live

Google Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is expanding the YouTube Live team in Bengaluru. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a high‑performing team of engineers responsible for live streaming experiences across living room surfaces and video watch journeys.

You will drive technical leadership, roadmap alignment, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver scalable, high‑quality features in a fast‑paced environment. The role emphasizes mentoring, hiring top talent, and shaping the team culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Hire the world’s best skilled talent and build a successful, productive engineering team.
• Provide technical leadership and direction for the team, shaping roadmap and initiatives with cross‑functional partners.
• Develop and lead a disciplined engineering development process and drive prioritization and resource allocation.
• Build creator platform and enable an ecosystem for third‑party partners and live streamers.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional leaders to develop user experiences for Live streaming on living room surfaces.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Full stack engineering

Frontend engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD in CS or related

Job description

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• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex organization.
• Experience with full stack, client and front-end engineering.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer (SWE) goes way beyond just Search. SWE 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 SWE Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. SWE 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.

The YouTube Live team is expanding a new hub in Bengaluru.

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a team of experienced engineers and drive the Live streaming offerings in living room surfaces. The scope of this role includes modernizing and growing live streaming on Living room (TV) surfaces, across video watch experiences, consumption journey's and interactivity.

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 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

• Hire the the world’s best skilled talent and build a successful and productive engineering team. Setup a strong engineering and innovation culture.
• Provide technical leadership and direction for the team. This includes driving the goal and definition of the roadmap and initiatives in collaboration with cross‑functional partners, and managing full‑stack development to support these initiatives.
• Develop and lead a disciplined engineering development process and drive insights, roadmap prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Build creator platform, and enable an ecosystem for third‑party partners and live streamers.
• Work closely with cross‑functional leaders to develop the user experiences for Live streaming on living room surfaces. Collaborate with many YouTube teams for feature development work.
  

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