Engineering Manager, YouTube Metadata Services

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 4 years of experience coding with a general purpose programming language (i.e. Java, C/C++, Python).
• 3 years of experience in software development in backend infrastructure, which includes testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with large-scale serving systems, multi-layer caching strategies, high-QPS RPC servers, etc.
• Ability to influence teams across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent project management and execution skills.

About the job

The YouTube Metadata Service (YTMS), is YouTube's high-Queries per second (QPS) metadata serving platform powering all of YouTube's products and surfaces. This is one of YouTube's most critical services, operating at a massive scale while meeting tight standards of latency, freshness, and reliability.

In this role, you will manage the YouTube Metadata Service team, responsible for crucial infrastructure that powers virtually every experience at YouTube. You will be responsible for the continued growth of the platform, delivering new capabilities to our customers while continuing to uphold rigorous standards for efficiency, latency, and reliability.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$284,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Software Engineers responsible for YouTube Metadata Services(YTMS), support them in their growth, success, and delivery against team and Product Area (PA) priorities.
• Develop knowledge of the team's systems, dependencies, customers, and partners, ensuring the team's current and future priorities are the right ones.
• Influence and shape roadmaps, infrastructure and strategies across the company.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, cultivate a mindset that promotes teamwork and innovation across different YouTube and Google teams.
• Builld technology stack on Boq, Scaffolding, C++, Spanner, RDMA, CliqueMap, UDCS-MV, and more.