Engineering Manager, Billing & Checkout — High-Scale

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for YouTube Commerce Billing & Checkout to lead an engineering team responsible for core order orchestration, subscription lifecycle management, and platform capabilities like Bundles.

You will drive the technical roadmap for high-scale, fault-tolerant engines, ensuring reliability, financial accuracy, and low latency while partnering with Product, UX, and Payments teams.

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.
• Experience designing, building, or managing distributed systems, transactional backends, or commerce/billing infrastructure.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities aligned with broader organizational goals, while establishing clear expectations and regularly providing performance feedback and coaching. Review code developed by engineers to ensure quality, testability, efficiency, and adherence to style and development best practices.
• Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s). 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.
• Advocate for operational excellence and reliability, ensuring strict financial data integrity, high availability, and proactive incident mitigation for mission-critical transactional pipelines.
• Lead the architecture and delivery of high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems and workflow orchestration engines that manage YouTube's end-to-end order lifecycle and subscription transitions.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for YouTube Commerce Billing & Checkout to lead an engineering team responsible for core order orchestration, subscription lifecycle management, and platform capabilities like Bundles.

You will drive the technical roadmap for high-scale, fault-tolerant engines, ensuring reliability, financial accuracy, and low latency while partnering with Product, UX, and Payments teams.