Tech Lead, OTT Growth, YouTube TV Primetime Channels, Sunday Ticket

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google’s YouTube OTT team seeks a Tech Lead to drive end-to-end platform engineering for live TV, Primetime Channels, and YouTube Sports, scaling systems and personalization to grow OTT services.

You will lead a distributed team, shape technical direction, and deliver large-scale software solutions with a focus on performance, reliability, and impact on billions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in Applied Machine Learning.
• Experience as a Tech Lead (TL) for a consumer-facing product, driving business generation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Skills

Software development

Software testing

Software design

Architecture

Education

Bachelor-equivalent

Advanced degree

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in Applied Machine Learning.
• Experience as a Tech Lead (TL) for a consumer-facing product, driving business generation.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Over-the-Top (OTT) mission is to deliver unique, delightful experiences for live TV and premium content on YouTube consistent across all surfaces and built on a shared platform. This mission includes building and innovating the YouTube TV end-t-end experience, Primetime Channels, and the YouTube Sports vertical in YouTube.com. YouTube TV is the fastest growing cable provider in the industry with a direct line of sight to being the nation’s largest, most profitable and innovative linear TV provider.

As a Tech Lead (TL), you will lead the technical infrastructure and end-to-end solution to use personalization to drive incremental business and OI for OTT, in order to grow YouTube’s OTT services to become market-leading, healthily profitable and defensible.

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.

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

Responsibilities

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• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .