Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Channel Memberships ( 8years )

HypTechie; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

YouTube seeks a Tech Lead to design, develop, and deploy tools and infrastructure enabling creators. This role focuses on onboarding, management for Channel Memberships, and building investigative and AI-assisted features to help creators optimize offerings.

You will partner with engineering and product managers to define the technical roadmap and mentor the team, delivering scalable full‑stack solutions that empower creator growth and monetization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more languages (Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years building scalable full-stack applications.
• 3 years of software design and architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design discussions with the wider team and influence tech leads.
• Provide technical leadership and drive the roadmap and full-stack initiatives.
• Mentor team members and define long-term technical roadmap.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and program management to influence the roadmap.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance infrastructure and codebase.

Skills

Python

C

C++

Java

JavaScript

Full-stack development

Team leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

About the job

As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying tools and infrastructure to empower creators. You will focus on enhancing the Channel Memberships offering through intuitive onboarding and management systems. You will develop investigative tools to provide creators with insights into their business performance and create supportive tools to guide them in optimizing their offerings. You will also leverage AI to unlock creativity and provide suggestions to creators, while partnering with engineering and product managers to define and drive the technical roadmap for these initiatives.

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

• Participate in and lead design discussions with the wider team and influence various tech leads.
• Provide technical leadership and direction for the team, drive the goal and definition of the roadmap and initiatives in collaboration with cross-functional partners, and manage full-stack development to support these initiatives.
• Collaborate, mentor, and develop other team members, help define the long-term technical roadmap, identify new patterns, and explore reusable and scalable implementation solutions.
• Partner and collaborate with related engineering teams, product management, and program management to influence the roadmap to ensure the development of high-quality solutions.
• Drive near-term and long-term goals, and design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the infrastructure and code base.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 5 years of experience building, developing, testing, and launching scalable full stack applications.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 7 years of experience building and developing scaled infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or with compute technologies and storage (e.g., spanner, bigquery).
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
• Experience in building or re-architecting products from scratch.
• Experience building and developing scaled full stack web and mobile applications.
• Experience in designing, building, and debugging full-stack applications.