Engineering Manager, YouTube Metadata Services

YouTube Metadata Service (YTMS) is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their high-QPS metadata serving platform that powers all of YouTube's products. This role combines technical leadership with people management, requiring 8+ years of infrastructure experience and proven leadership capabilities. You'll manage a critical team responsible for YouTube's core infrastructure, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of YouTube's technical infrastructure, managing and scaling one of the platform's most critical services. You'll be responsible for leading a team of engineers, shaping technical direction, and ensuring the platform meets rigorous standards for efficiency, latency, and reliability.

The role requires deep technical expertise in distributed systems, large-scale infrastructure, and backend development, combined with strong leadership and people management skills. You'll collaborate across YouTube and Google, influencing technical strategies and roadmaps while building and maintaining critical infrastructure.

Working at YouTube means being at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and creative content delivery. The company culture emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and making an impact on billions of users. With competitive compensation ($189,000-$284,000 + bonus + equity) and comprehensive benefits, this role offers both technical challenges and leadership opportunities in one of tech's most influential platforms.

The ideal candidate will have experience with large-scale serving systems, multi-layer caching strategies, and high-QPS RPC servers, along with the ability to influence teams across organizational boundaries. You'll be joining a company that values diversity, inclusion, and the power of storytelling through technology.