Software Engineering Manager II, YouTube Commerce

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

At YouTube Commerce, we build the platform and infrastructure that powers Google’s largest subscription products - including YouTube Premium, YouTube TV, Primetime Channels, and Channel Memberships.

As a Software Engineering Manager for YouTube Commerce Billing & Checkout (Order Management), you will lead an engineering team responsible for core order orchestration, subscription lifecycle management, and platform capabilities like Bundles. You will drive the technical roadmap for high-scale, fault-tolerant transactional engines, ensuring absolute reliability, financial accuracy, and low latency while partnering closely with Product, UX, and cross-functional Payments teams to shape the future of YouTube's consumer business generation.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Set and communicate team priorities aligned with broader organizational goals, while establishing clear expectations and regularly providing performance feedback and coaching. Review code developed by engineers to ensure quality, testability, efficiency, and adherence to style and development best practices.
• Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s). Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Advocate for operational excellence and reliability, ensuring strict financial data integrity, high availability, and proactive incident mitigation for mission-critical transactional pipelines.
• Lead the architecture and delivery of high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems and workflow orchestration engines that manage YouTube's end-to-end order lifecycle and subscription transitions.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• Experience designing, building, or managing distributed systems, transactional backends, or commerce/billing infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  
• Experience with subscription lifecycle management, billing engines, order management systems, or payment gateway integrations.
• Experience designing workflow state machines, event-driven architectures, or ACID-compliant transactional distributed storage.
• Strong executive communication skills with experience driving technical consensus across cross-organizational stakeholders (Product, Ops, Finance, Legal).
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.