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Software Engineer III, YouTube Viewcount and Aggregations

Schweiz💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-26 → 2026-09-27

Core

Design, build, and maintain critical systems that compute video view counts, live stream concurrent viewers, and other fundamental metrics for YouTube.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (large-scale infrastructure & distributed systems)

Builds

Batch and streaming data pipelines for computing user-facing metrics

Domain

Video streaming platform, large-scale distributed systems, data processing

Required skills

C++, large-scale infrastructure development, distributed systems, networks, compute technologies, storage, hardware architecture

Preferred skills

Data structures and algorithms, accessible technologies, Spanner, Bigtable, Server Platform, Flume, large-scale architecture design

Technologies

C++, Spanner, Bigtable, Server Platform, Flume

Responsibilities

Manage and optimize processing of billions of daily events for batch and streaming data pipelines; Develop robust monitoring, alerting, and data validation strategies for distributed systems; Partner with stakeholders to understand needs and deliver solutions; Drive evolution of how key user-facing metrics are computed.

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