Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Software Engineer at YouTube

This position is available in San Bruno, CA.

The CYC team builds infrastructure and tools dedicated to providing 3rd parties a platform to manage their content. The successful candidate will work closely with product management to gather and define requirements and will then design and implement complete solutions from the bottom-up. The candidate's strong design and development skills will ensure the feature meet scalability and availability requirements in order to sustain the exponential growth our platform is exposed to. The candidate should thrive in a fast paced, collaborative and fun environment and should have the ability to take business requirements and architect a complete solution. Projects created and implemented should meet extremely high standard in regards to scalability. With a strong sense of ownership, the successful candidate is expected to own and drive a project during its whole life cycle: from product definition, to design and development, deployment to live, maintenance and enhancement.

Requirements:
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Proficient in at least one object oriented language (Python, C++, Java).
  • 8+ years of industry experience.
  • Advanced SQL skills (MySQL preferred).
  • Working experience building large scale web applications.
  • Python programming language a plus.
  • Familiar with XML, building APIs or SDKs a plus.
  • Linux operating system preferred.
  • Teamwork oriented, ability to mentor other engineers.
  • Experience as an architect or technical lead on large project a strong plus.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to create strong working relationship with cross-functional teams (Business Development, Product, Engineering).
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