Software Engineer Iii, Content Management System, Youtube

Google Google · Big Tech · Zürich, Switzerland

Software Engineer III on the YouTube Content Management System team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining systems that manage interactions between YouTube and media companies. The role involves architecting storage, indexing, and serving infrastructure for a global copyright database, and leading the integration of agentic tools for automating investigations. Domain expertise in the complex copyright landscape, influenced by Generative AI and regulatory changes, is a core requirement.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a Software Engineer on the YouTube Content Management System team, you will design, build, evolve, and maintain the critical systems that facilitate the interactions between YouTube and all major media companies worldwide.
  2. Designing and implementing global-scale systems: Work with dozens of teams across YouTube to architect and evolve the storage, indexing and serving infrastructure for YouTube’s global copyright database of billions of assets and copyright claims.
  3. Pushing Boundaries: Lead the integration of agentic tools to automate complex investigations and data reconciliation.
  4. Domain Mastery: Developing deep domain expertise is a core requirement of this role, as the copyright landscape is complex and rapidly evolving, driven by advancements in Generative AI and shifts in regulatory frameworks.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Backend software development
  • Data Analysis

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic tools
  • Generative AI
  • regulatory frameworks

Other signals

  • integrating agentic tools
  • automate complex investigations
  • Generative AI advancements
  • regulatory frameworks