Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Development, Protected Data

3 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Backend Development • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Developer in Site Reliability Development at Google, you'll be responsible for driving reliability, resiliency, and efficiency efforts throughout the lifecycle of Protected Data. You'll define and implement infrastructure resilience and scalability strategies, identify opportunities for horizontal improvement, and collaborate with Protected Data leads to integrate AI/ML solutions. This role involves participating in on-call rotations, handling complex incident coordination, distributed system debugging, and implementing technical mitigations and long-term fixes. You'll also define engagement models for infrastructure-level integrations.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • 5+ years of experience with data structures or algorithms
  • 3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • 2+ years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • Experience as a technical leader
  • Experience with AI/ML systems
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks
  • Excellent leadership and cross-functional skills

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, and 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Experience as a technical leader.
  • Experience with AI/ML systems.
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
  • Excellent leadership and cross-functional skills.

About the job

Site Reliability Development combines software and systems development to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Site Reliability Development 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 Site Reliability Developers 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 Site Reliability Development 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.

Site Reliability Developers culture of diversity, 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 , watch a recorded to meet some of our Site Reliability Developers, or read a about why a Software Developer chose to join Site Reliability Development.

We help Protected Data by driving reliability, resiliency, and efficiency efforts throughout the lifecycle of end-user data. Privacy Indexing Site Reliability Development's goal is to make data processing product offerings within Protected Data self-sustaining, self-healing, efficient, and requiring minimal operational cost.

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

  • Define, lead and drive to completion Protected Data's infrastructure resiliency and scalability efforts.
  • Identify opportunities for horizontal resiliency improvements in Protected Data and infrastructure partners (e.g., storage and platform teams).
  • Collaborate with Protected Data leads to introduce AI/ML to the organization.
  • Participate regularly in a tier 1 oncall rotation, including complex incident coordination, distributed system debugging, implementing technical mitigations and long term fixes, as well as blameless postmortem authoring.
  • Define engagement model for infrastucture-level integrations.

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