Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Developer Infrastructure

About the Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.The YouTube Developer Infrastructure team develops infrastructure and builds engineering products around Quality, Ease, velocity, and partner success. The ultimate goal of the team is to deliver tech infrastructure that impacts the lives of YouTube users. We develop, master and promote a purpose motivated adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) development tools to achieve this.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.

Responsibilities

• Work with the site leadership and organization executives on site specific priorities for YouTube Bengaluru initiatives (e.g., applied AI, verticals, etc).
• Build applied AI products.
• Design, develop or adopt key developer Generative AI tools and vibe coding techniques to fixing developer infrastructure tests and achieving developer infrastructure team's Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Ideate, design and develop applied AI products for YouTube developers, including quality multi-modal agents to make the development process efficient.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, templates, and Standard Template Library (STL).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in working on Large Language Models (LLMs) or Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) quality problems.
• Experience in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python).
• Experience with performance testing tools and methodologies, and working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with software engineering, C++, integration testing, tools development, performance tuning.
• Knowledge of system design, algorithms, and data structures.
• Ability to learn new AI frameworks, prototype and able to drive results.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Developer Infrastructure
• Generative AI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Machine Learning (ML)
• System Design
• Performance Tuning
• Distributed Systems
• Object-Oriented Programming