Software Engineer II, Trust and Safety, YouTube

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 1 year of experience implementing core ML concepts.

Nice to haves:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, launching, and serving ML models.
• Experience in applied machine learning at scale.
• Excellent pragmatic and collaborative mindset, leveraging existing resources to achieve impact quickly, and influencing other teams' roadmaps to meet program needs.

What you'll be doing:

• Write product or system development code.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Perform data analysis (e.g., SQL, Python in Colab) to gain insights on how to reach our detection goals; Perform model experiments, analyze them, and build graph-based classifiers; Work with research and other engineering teams to identify and deploy graph-based solutions.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies; Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Perks and benefits:

• YouTube
• Zürich, Switzerland
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies
• Dynamic work environment
• Contribute to a team focused on trust and safety on YouTube