Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, YouTube Future of Video

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, YouTube Future of Video
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Job Overview
Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. In this role, you will help power the world’s largest video platform and design and build high-performance video processing hardware used by YouTube in Google data centers. Your work will directly enable new features for billions of users while significantly reducing the cost of transcoding at unprecedented scale.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

5 years of experience with software development in C++.

5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

Experience with Linux-based development environments, large-scale distributed systems and performance-critical applications, or working with video encoding.

Experience in low-level engineering such as kernel subsystems and user-space driver integrations.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain core software that vertically integrates new hardware video encoders into the YouTube video processing pipeline.

Collaborate with product infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and support new video features across various platforms such as live streaming, video on demand (VOD), and Shorts.

Design, implement, and validate new features and optimizations that leverage the capabilities of custom hardware for high-performance video transcoding.

Debug and optimize production systems, investigating and resolving performance bottlenecks to improve latency, throughput, and overall efficiency at Google’s data center scale.

Perform low-level software engineering, including user-space driver integrations, kernel subsystems, and other systems-level engineering.

Compensation
US: $174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google’s EEO Policy, Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, Belonging at Google, and How We Hire.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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