Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Workspace

1 Day ago • 8 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google Workspace in Zurich, Switzerland, will manage the Zurich subset of the Apps Controls SRE Team. Responsibilities include providing technical guidance on design and product decisions, leading large-scale projects (migrations, compliance efforts, feature launches), collaborating with SRE and development partners, and participating in the Workspace SRE's daily operations. The role requires expertise in software development (8+ years experience), distributed systems (3+ years experience), and people management (3+ years experience). The SRE team focuses on reliability, uptime, and performance of Google's services using software and systems engineering principles. Much of the work involves optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating tasks to handle the unique challenges of Google's scale.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years distributed systems experience
  • 3+ years people management experience
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • Manage Zurich Apps Controls SRE Team
  • Provide technical guidance on design
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or Engineering
  • Experience with C, C++, Java, Python
  • Experience with debugging and scalability

Job Details

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 managing people, teams and leading projects.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Experience in one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python.
  • Experience with debugging and scalability.

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's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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.

To learn more: check out our books on or read a about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
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.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the Zurich subset of the Apps Controls SRE Team.
  • Provide technical guidance for designs and product decisions from a scalability, reliability and efficiency perspective.
  • Organize and lead larger efforts and programs, such as large-scale migrations, compliance efforts, and feature launches like Chat-in-Meet.
  • Collaborate with the SRE subset and our Development Partners.
  • Participate in the general Workspace SRE rhythm of business.

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