Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Shorts Creation Data, Metrics and Compute
Mountain View, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the end-to-end data architecture, metrics, telemetry, and compute-estimation frameworks for YouTube Shorts Creation, including optimization for generative AI features.
What you'll do
- Lead design and governance of consolidated production data warehouses and canonical data sources.
- Build telemetry pipelines and analytical models to measure creation funnels, latency, cancellations, and hardware utilization for TPU capacity planning.
- Standardize business logic and experimentation metrics, unify logging contracts, and lead design reviews and the multi-year data roadmap.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- Experience leading cross-organizational technical roadmaps across software engineering, product management, and data science.
- Experience designing and operating production data warehouses, distributed data pipelines, and telemetry schemas using SQL, Python, C++, or Go, and Protocol Buffers.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience with compute/hardware capacity optimization for large-scale Generative AI media applications.
Pay
USD 207000 - 300000 base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, C++, Go, Protocol Buffers, TPU, GPU, RASTA
AI focus
Build analytical models and frameworks for generative AI creation-feature telemetry, compute optimization, and TPU capacity estimation.
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