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Senior Software Engineering Manager, YouTube Channel Memberships

Google
13 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Zürich, ZH

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Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager for YouTube Channel Memberships in Zürich, combining deep technical leadership with people management to guide multiple teams on large scale initiatives. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, eight years’ programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go, and five years in technical leadership plus five years in people management, with experience spanning strategy, roadmaps, and cross team alignment. You’ll design systems, review code for quality, and mentor engineers. To apply, emphasize cross functional impact in matrixed settings, owned roadmaps and budgets, and measurable outcomes such as performance, reliability, and user engagement, with concrete examples of shipping large features and collaborating with product, security, UX and SRE partners.


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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.

Responsibilities

  • Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals, and align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  • Establish clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals, and meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  • Develop the long-term technical goal and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams, and evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  • Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).