Software Engineering Manager, Core Media Team, YouTube

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

Job summary

Google's YouTube Mountain View team is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for the Core Media Group. You will lead engineers across multiple teams, define technical direction, and align work with product strategy.

You’ll mentor engineers, manage project goals, and oversee large-scale deployments in audio/video infrastructure, transcoding, and media quality initiatives. This role requires leadership in a matrixed environment and a track record delivering complex systems.

Qualifications

• Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of leadership roles, navigating ambiguous projects and setting technical direction.
• 3 years in a complex, matrixed organization.
• 2 years of managing software engineering teams.
• Experience in audio/video industry and backend systems.
• Proven track record of driving cross-functional teams toward large-scale deployment of software systems.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities aligning with broader goals across teams.
• Define expectations, provide feedback, and coach engineers for growth.
• Develop mid-term technical goals and roadmaps across multiple teams.
• Design and vet system architectures; contribute code to solve complex problems.
• Review others' code to ensure best practices and quality.
• Oversee deployment of large-scale projects across sites and organizations.

Skills

Leadership

Decision making

Ambiguity navigation

Stakeholder influence

Cross-functional leadership

Technical direction

People management

Education

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Software Engineering Manager, Core Media Team, YouTube

YouTube Mountain View, CA, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience in leadership roles, navigating ambiguous projects and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• 2 years of experience in managing software engineering teams.
• Experience working in the audio/video industry and backend systems.
• Proven track record of driving cross-functional teams toward large-scale deployment of software systems.

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.

Media algorithms organization is a mix of applied research and YouTube’s core media infrastructure at scale. The team contains Software Engineers and domain experts, focused on researching and improving the video infrastructure for audio and video quality, generative media, and transcoding. We build guardrails for YouTube’s media quality, optimizing tradeoffs between quality and scaling costs (network and resource usage), and innovating backend transcoding/processing infrastructure, to effectively serve massive amounts of video to billions of users across a wide range of devices. We build innovative YouTube features within the audio quality, automatic dubbing and live streaming space.

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 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of the multiple teams. 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.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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