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Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

1 Month ago • 5-7 Years • DevOps • Backend Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

This Senior Software Engineer role within Google Cloud's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team focuses on building and maintaining large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Responsibilities encompass the entire service lifecycle, from design and development to deployment, operation, and refinement. You'll be involved in system design consulting, capacity planning, monitoring system health (availability, latency), automating tasks for sustainable scaling, and improving reliability and velocity. The role requires expertise in software development, data structures and algorithms, and experience leading projects and providing technical guidance. Incident response and conducting blameless postmortems are key aspects of the position. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication abilities.

Must have:

5+ years software development experience
5+ years data structures/algorithms experience
3+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems
2+ years project leadership and technical leadership
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Good to have:

Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate tasks
Systematic problem-solving and communication skills

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 large-scale distributed systems, and 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.

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 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.

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

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle 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.

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