Software Engineering Manager II, YouTube Commerce

Job description

Set and communicate team priorities aligned with broader organizational goals, while establishing clear expectations and regularly providing performance feedback and coaching. Review code developed by engineers to ensure quality, testability, efficiency, and adherence to style and development best practices. Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s). Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs. Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems. Advocate for operational excellence and reliability, ensuring strict financial data integrity, high availability, and proactive incident mitigation for mission-critical transactional pipelines. Lead the architecture and delivery of high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems and workflow orchestration engines that manage YouTube's end-to-end order lifecycle and subscription transitions. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role. 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role. Experience designing, building, or managing distributed systems, transactional backends, or commerce/billing infrastructure. Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization. Experience with subscription lifecycle management, billing engines, order management systems, or payment gateway integrations. Experience designing workflow state machines, event-driven architectures, or ACID-compliant transactional distributed storage. Strong executive communication skills with experience driving technical consensus across cross-organizational stakeholders (Product, Ops, Finance, Legal). Demonstrated track record of recruiting, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.