Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of software development experience.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed/parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, language processing, networking, developing software systems, and/or security software development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in the TV/OTT industry.
• Experience working with full stack development.
• Experience developing user-facing features and/or apps.
• Ability to influence and inspire teams to align technical direction.
• Ability to create and execute on roadmaps that consider both progress and innovation as well as the need to scale reliably.

About the job

Over-the-Top (OTT) Engineering's mission is to deliver unique, delightful experiences for live TV and premium content on YouTube consistent across surfaces and built on a shared platform. OTT Engineering supports the OTT product portfolio that includes YouTube TV and YouTube Sports. As a Principal Engineer on this team, you will work to merge the OTT vision and platform. You will be responsible for the design and development across all OTT products and help us solve key technical challenges of growth and scale, allowing us to go to market more quickly. This includes YouTube TV, YouTube Sports, and the OTT Platform.

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

• Ensure that as Over-the-Top (OTT) features are built, opportunities to improve engineering efficiency and accelerate feature velocity are appropriately leveraged.
• Help build industry-leading TV experiences that challenge the current technical capabilities at YouTube and Google.
• Drive OTT's integration to/back into YouTube Main, balancing the need for business velocity with engineering desire to build for reuse.
• Work across YouTube and Google to learn and influence various technical advances.
• Ensure feature development velocity is balanced with key performance and reliability metrics.