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Live Acquisition Engineering Manager, YouTube
Engineering Manager
We're looking for an Engineering Manager focused on designing and building scalable technical solutions. This manager role requires 9+ years of relevant experience.
About the role
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.
- 3 years of experience in people management.
- Experience in either system design or reading code (e.g., Java, C++, Python).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
- 15 years of experience in operations management (i.e. process improvement, operational reviews, optimizing workflows, etc).
- 10 years of experience in broadcast engineering fields like signal acquisition, transcoding, distribution, or monitoring.
- 7 years of experience in direct management of engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute YouTube's live video physical and logical acquisition strategy leveraging public internet, fiber providers, and satellite technologies.
- Direct a team of 8 broadcast engineers while managing hardware deployment, vendor partnerships, a multi-million dollar budget, and Technical Operations Center (TOC) escalation support.
- Cultivate strategic relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (Software Engineering (SWE), Product) and external partners/broadcasters to modernize stream automation, latency, and observability.
- Act as a domain expert to guide repeatable solutions, optimize technical delivery, reduce operational costs, and align with broader broadcast industry standards.
Skills
pythoncjavalinearprocess improvement