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Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.\nAs a part of the Shorts Creation Infrastructure team, your mission is to build the horizontal infrastructure that powers media generation (video/audio/image) and Shorts creation on YouTube.\nThe product surfaces we serve include Shorts Creation, Effects, Posts, and YouTube Studio.\nIn this role you will be responsible for the team and backend infrastructure that powers Remix features (both AI and non-AI) in YouTube. 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