Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Youtube

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its YouTube Infrastructure team. The role involves developing next-generation technologies for massive-scale information handling, extending beyond web search. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing software solutions, managing project priorities, and potentially leading design reviews. The ideal candidate will have experience in C++, large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and software design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • software design and architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems