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Staff Software Engineer, YouTube

Google

  • Mountain View, CA
  • 30+ days ago
  • Full-time
  • Employee
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Skills

  • Advertisingunmatched
  • Algorithmsunmatched
  • Alliance/Partner Managementunmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Languageunmatched
  • Biddingunmatched
  • Business Growthunmatched
  • C++ Programming Languageunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Data Scienceunmatched
  • Data Storageunmatched
  • Data Structuresunmatched
  • Direct Response Advertisingunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Information Retrievalunmatched
  • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
  • Internet Searchunmatched
  • Javaunmatched
  • JavaScriptunmatched
  • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Matrix Managementunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)unmatched
  • Network Designunmatched
  • Product Managementunmatched
  • Product/Service Launchunmatched
  • Project Developmentunmatched
  • Project Lifecycleunmatched
  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Small Businessunmatched
  • Software Administrationunmatched
  • Software Architectureunmatched
  • Software Architecture Designunmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
  • Technical Leadershipunmatched
  • Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • User Interface Designunmatched
  • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
  • YouTubeunmatched

Description

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or C++.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 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.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Experience in YouTube Ads quality and infrastructure.
  • Experience in measurement (both brand and direct-response) or bidding.

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.With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Product Management (PM), User Experience and Research (UX/R), Program Management (PgM), Data Science (DS), and others—and executive stakeholders across YouTube (YT) Ads, YouTube (YT) Organic, and broader Ads teams to deliver a multi-year roadmap for these areas and launch features improving the ad viewer experience. You will also participate in early-stage ad product definition and full lifecycle project development.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the roadmap for YouTube Living Room business generation, focusing on increasing the ad business-per-hour of YouTube on TV screens (e.g., via quality levers, inventory utilization, or making measurement accurate for brand and direct-response ads).
  • Improve the ad experience (e.g., less disruptive ads with fewer interruptions according to video content).
  • Guide the quality sub-pod, and mentor engineers to support their growth while fostering a team culture.
  • Define goals, prioritize, engage with partners to unblock your team, and make progress on objectives and key results (OKRs).
  • Collaborate and manage alignment with partner teams across YouTube Ads (e.g., Quality, Infrastructure) and broader Ads organizations (e.g., Measurement), as well as with cross-functional partners (e.g., Product Management, User Experience/Research, Program Management, and Data Science).
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.

Numbers & Facts

LocationMountain View, CA
Job TypeFull-time, Employee
IndustryComputer Software
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1998
Websitehttps://goo.gle/4dbno6V

Benefits

Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria

About Company

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

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