Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Responsibilities

The role involves managing the full lifecycle of services, including design, deployment, operation, and refinement. You will also be responsible for maintaining system health, scaling infrastructure through automation, and conducting blameless postmortems.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 8 years of software development experience. Additionally, 3 years of experience in distributed systems design and project leadership are required.

Skills

• Software development
• Distributed systems
• Project leadership
• Unix
• Linux
• Capacity planning
• Automation
• System design
• Algorithms
• Complexity analysis
• Incident response
• Monitoring
• Availability
• Latency
• Infrastructure

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health Insurance

About this role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent
practical experience.
* 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming
languages.
* 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed
systems.
* 3 years of experience leading projects.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
* Experience using Unix/Linux operating systems.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to
build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE
ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our
externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's
needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an
ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems,
building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE
team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale
which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding,
algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of
intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our
organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds,
experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and
take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on
meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides
the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the
Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and
maintaining our data centers to building the next-generation of Google
platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our
engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we
can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have
the best and fastest experience possible.Individual pay is determined by factors
including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of services, from inception and
design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
* Support services before they go live through activities such as system design
consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning
and launch reviews.
* Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring
availability, latency and overall system health.
* Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve
systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
* Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

About Google

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