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

Google· YouTube
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Mountain View, CA, USA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on technical leadership and ownership of long-term engineering strategy for YouTube Ads Surfaces and Experiences, with emphasis on AI capabilities and cross-functional collaboration across YouTube teams.

Responsibilities

  • 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 investments remove 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.

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.

Skills

Required:JavaScript/TypeScriptJava/C++Design and architecture
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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