Partner Engineering Lead — Mobile & Video Infra

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a YouTube Partner Engineering Lead in Mountain View, CA to drive partnerships and deployments across devices and mobile ecosystems. You will own technical engagements, balance business needs with technical constraints, and build tools to automate partner operations.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Development, Operations and Marketing to prioritize projects, improve operations, and define new solutions for scalable partnerships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical liaison, aligning YouTube's cross-functional product, UX, legal, and video infrastructure teams with global mobile OEMs, SoC vendors, and carriers to deploy YouTube's innovations.
• Lead co-engineering initiatives to adapt YouTube apps to the hardware profiles, ensuring flawless UI navigation, low-latency playback, and optimized resource consumption across billions of devices.
• Synchronize client-side player engines with backend transcoding pipelines to drive the global adoption of advanced media codecs. Partner directly with external engineering teams to isolate, debug, and resolve platform-level regressions—such as audio/video sync errors, playback crashes—before production releases.
• Design and enforce strict hardware/software certification workflows, validating compliance with security protocols, Widevine DRM, and YouTube’s internal quality standards.
• Leverage client-side playback telemetry and automated testing frameworks to identify ecosystem-wide performance trends, translating insights into improvements for YouTube’s core streaming architecture.

Skills

HTML/CSS/JS

Java/C++/Python

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelors degree in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google is seeking a YouTube Partner Engineering Lead in Mountain View, CA to drive partnerships and deployments across devices and mobile ecosystems. You will own technical engagements, balance business needs with technical constraints, and build tools to automate partner operations.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Development, Operations and Marketing to prioritize projects, improve operations, and define new solutions for scalable partnerships.