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Google · 1 day ago

Senior Live Video Network Engineer, YouTube

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$147K/yr - $216K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Live Video Network Engineer for YouTube. The role involves merging network engineering with advanced video streaming architecture, building scalable infrastructure for live broadcasts, and developing automation tools to enhance network operations.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and implement scalable, resilient, high-performance network solutions, with a specialized focus on complex multicast environments (PIM, IGMP, MSDP) and virtualization efforts. Drive capacity planning and cloud convergence projects

Build, maintain and expand our network automation platform using GoLang. Develop custom tools and services to automate network provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring

Serve as the highest escalation point for complex network issues, particularly those related to multicast routing and automated systems. Identify and optimize network performance and stability

Learn traffic traversing on the network -- the transport protocols, video compressions, metadata and traffic patterns. Perform packet analysis and extend networking expertise to the general video streaming solution and architecture space

Work with business stakeholders, software engineering, SRE, and layer 1 deployment teams to ensure the network meets the needs of our applications and services

Qualification

Network architectureData analysisVideo encodingSQL/MySQLCloud environmentsKubernetesNetwork automationFunctional programmingGoPythonSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

5 years of experience at a streaming service or in broadcast media digital distribution

5 years of experience with data analysis and SQL/MySQL

5 years of experience in system design and network architecture

Experience with video encoding and content metadata

Preferred

Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting large-scale multicast routing environments

Experience building network automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Ansible, Nornir, or custom-built solutions)

Experience building or supporting high-bandwidth applications in cloud environments (preferably GCP)

Familiarity and working knowledge of Kubernetes (preferably GKE), and comfortable working with APIs, data modeling, and configuration templating

Understanding of audio/video signal processing and protocols, media streaming system components, and media streaming domain

Software development skills with demonstrated proficiency in functional programming, preferably Go and Python

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8763)

2024 (8872)

2023 (9682)

2022 (11626)

2021 (9109)

2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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