Hybrid role as Software Engineer with management responsibilities.As manager:Responsible for managing three direct reports, ensuring team productivity and outcomes, and providing career guidance. As tech lead:Provide tech leadership for wider Premium & Commerce Engineering Productivity team (7 software engineers) through setting team direction and goals, authoring high-level designs and strategy papers, creating and assigning project workflows, and providing technical guidance through design and code reviews. While my team is directly attached to the Premium and Commerce team, usage of commerce backends and services across a variety of paid products means my team's work has a large audience and surface area across many YouTube teams that utilize Commerce systems, such as YouTube TV, TV/Video on Demand, Live Chat, YouTube Music, etc, and the Commerce team also has interactions with many Google teams outside of YouTube, such as Google Payments, Google Play, Google Assistant, and more.As individual contributor: Continuing role as software engineer individual contributor via direct project work, designing and implementing internal tools, libraries, and applications to meet gaps in developer tooling.

Primary responsibilities:Tech lead for Engineering Productivity team tasked with supporting YouTube’s Premium, Commerce, and Growth teams through the developing of internal tooling and automation. Leading group of 5 engineers, setting team direction and goals, leading high level designs, and providing guidance and reviews to junior team members, in addition to contributions on unsocial projects.Drive engineering productivity by designing and building internal applications and integrations for commerce and subscription-related infrastructure. Provide robust reporting, debugging, and diagnostics tooling for Commerce, Premium, Music, and TV backend systems. Participate in cross-team collaborative projects to integrate outside team data or frameworks into Commerce and vice-versa, and support integration of commerce and subscription infrastructure into new products, services, and client appsSpecific projects:- Large-scale automated refactoring and tools to migrate libraries Google-wide to Python 3-compatibility.- Designed and developed continuous build system to automate tracking and collection of integration test coverage in Google production services- Development of suite of web services, tools, and visualizations for developer debugging and testing on sandbox YouTube environment- Designed and implemented large-scale data processing pipeline to automatically detect deployed services across YouTube and gather analytics for all network APIs. Developed UI dashboards and analytics platform to enable serving live and historical data to other integrators.

I work on the Developer Experience & Engineering Productivity team for YouTube Premium (formerly Red), Commerce, and (membership) Growth PlatformMission:Drive engineering productivity by designing and building internal applications and integrations for commerce and subscription-related infrastructure. Provide robust reporting, debugging, and diagnostics tooling for Commerce, Premium, Music, and TV backend systems. Participate in cross-team collaborative projects to integrate outside team data or frameworks into Commerce and vice-versa, and support integration of commerce and subscription infrastructure into new products, services, and client apps.

Provide tooling and test automation infrastructure for various YouTube backend commerce systems used by YouTube Red and YouTube TV. Frontend developer for internal production admin site. Support cross-team integrations with other services and apps like Google Home, YouTube Music (app), Google Play Music, and others.

Provide robust automation and testing infrastructure and develop engineering tools and services that improve cross-team productivity for various teams working on YouTube subscription services.

Develop test tools and test infrastructure for testing on YouTube commerce backend, and for iOS and Android apps. Development of various test reporting tools and front- and back-end engineer for internal web-based admin.

Develop tools and infrastructure capable of handling testing and automation at Google-scale on backend corporate infrastructure and internal applications. Some development work on proprietary internal database technology. Develop tool for large-scale and distributed processing for data anonymization purposes.

Develop robust web services and applications for DNS server administration and data collection/reporting using Java and Play Framework. Full-stack web development including Maven, JNI, Postgres, Javascript, CSS, and HTML Develop unit and functional tests to ensure quality and operate within a test-driven development, continuous integration environment.

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