Software Engineer III, YouTube Viewcount and Aggregations

About the role

As a Software Engineer on the YouTube Viewcount and Aggregations team, you will design, build, evolve and maintain the systems that compute every video's view count, live stream concurrent viewers and other fundamental metrics. The role focuses on the quality, consistency and scale needed to support dozens of teams across YouTube. Most positions require in-person interviews.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the processing of billions of daily events, providing efficient, scalable solutions for batch and streaming data pipelines using key internal infrastructure.
• Develop and implement monitoring, alerting and data validation strategies across distributed systems to deliver consistent, reliable metric data, and build and augment fault-tolerant systems.
• Partner with stakeholders across YouTube, including Shorts, Live, Creator Analytics and Trust and Safety, to understand their needs, gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Drive the evolution of how YouTube's key user-facing metrics are computed, adapting to new viewing experiences and products.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development experience in C++, or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Preferred: Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, experience with data structures and algorithms, and experience developing accessible technologies.

Required skills

• C++
• Preferred: Spanner, Bigtable, Server Platform or Flume
• Preferred: deep understanding of large-scale architecture design and implementation