Role Summary
YouTube (Google) is hiring a Data Engineer for the YouTube Business Strategy & Operations team in Bengaluru, Karnataka. In this high-impact role, you will build and scale production-grade data pipelines, dimensional data models, and ETL workflows that power the creator ecosystem, partner operations, and go-to-market strategies for YouTube globally. You will collaborate closely with analytics professionals, product managers, and business leaders to productionize data features, optimize distributed data platforms (Dataflow, Spark, Flume), and enforce robust data governance standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Pipeline & Architecture Design: Design, build, test, and optimize large-scale ETL pipelines, data models, and synchronous/asynchronous system integrations.
- Productionizing ML & Analytics: Partner with data analysts and data scientists to scale statistical models, machine learning features, and analytics capabilities into production environments.
- Data Governance & Quality: Build and maintain enterprise data platforms that ensure data integrity, reliability, security, and governance across global datasets.
- Requirements Scoping & Technical Design: Conduct discovery sessions with executive stakeholders and domain experts to gather data requirements and author system architecture documentation.
- Exploratory Querying & Optimization: Write complex SQL queries and scripts to explore large-scale datasets, troubleshoot data flow issues, and improve platform performance.
Key Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or equivalent quantitative field.
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in programming (Python, Java, or similar), designing dimensional data models, and building scalable ETL/data pipelines.
- Tech Stack Depth: Hands-on experience with modern big data stacks (e.g., Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Spark, Flume, SQL) and large-scale data platforms.
- Domain Expertise: Proven capability in data warehousing, distributed systems, and handling high-volume data lakes.
- Soft Skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional stakeholder communication capabilities.
About YouTube
YouTube, a Google company, connects over 2 billion monthly users globally, empowering creators, artists, and media companies to share their stories and build thriving digital communities.