Staff Partner Engineer, Device Platform Operations, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• 8 years of software development experience coding in C++.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.
• Experience in the TV, consumer electronics, or embedded space.
• Experience with RDK, Android TV, or similar TV platform architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Experience in an analytical role such as business intelligence, data analytics, or statistics.
• Experience working with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
• Experience or interest in the media industry.
• Strong communication, people management, and problem solving skills.
• Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.

About The Job As a Partner Engineer on the Devices Platform Ops team, you'll lead deployments, optimize implementations, and handle integrations to build strong, successful, long-term device partnerships. You will own technical engagements and will be the key driver in finding creative/innovative solutions that lead them to the next level.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead projects and teams that require close collaboration with other teams like Product, Engineering, Business Development, and Operations. You'll play a key role in improving existing operations, defining and commercializing new solutions, bridging product gaps, automating partner operations and taking new initiatives from conception to successful deployment.

You will be able to balance business and partner needs with technical constraints, develop innovative, solutions and act as a partner and consultant to those you are working with. You will also be able to build tools and automate products, oversee the technical execution and business operations of Google's partnerships, as well as develop product strategy and prioritize projects and resources.

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: $183000 - $265000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Lead implementation reviews, advocate new product features, ensure the prompt and proper resolution of technical challenges. Improve product feature offerings by providing partner feedback to internal cross-functional teams including Product Management and Engineering.
• Guarantee partner integrations by providing technical documentation and guidance. Optimize revenue growth from new and existing business using YouTube technologies.
• Bridge the engineer team with external partners, to collaborate on high-impact features and coordinate critical fixes.
• Align with Android ecosystem teams within Google on behalf of YouTube, working to improve annual alignments, project prioritization, and keeping senior leadership informed.
• Access AI resources at Google to automate workflows and optimize code. For example using DeepMind AlphaEvolve to improve memory performance, and leveraging frontier Gemini releases to build agents that run on-device testing , discover regressions, and recommend remediations.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .