Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, YouTube Ads Surfaces and Experiences

• Drive long-term engineering strategy, incorporating organizational business priorities and technological shifts, such as new AI capabilities.
• Own key technical decisions based on your expertise, guiding the team through important design tradeoffs, short term/long term strategy, system health, and risk management.
• Identify system hotspots to improve the organization's technical health, ensuring the calculated investments are made to remove widely-felt barriers to productivity/feature throughput.
• Invest in growing the next generation of technical leaders through direct coaching, scalable mentorship initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure features are built consistently across different surfaces working closely with YouTube organic, quality, client infrastructure teams.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 8 years of experience programming in Java or C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 8 years of experience programming in Java or C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.