Senior Systems Development Engineer, Silicon

3 Days ago • 5-8 Years • DevOps

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Job Description

This Senior Systems Development Engineer, Silicon role at Google involves managing services and systems at scale. Responsibilities include architecting, implementing, and maintaining computing infrastructure; creating and improving Linux computing, storage, and networking environments on Google Cloud Platform; automating and improving processes to reduce support toil; troubleshooting technical issues in large-scale Linux environments; and participating in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses strong Linux systems administration, programming (Python, Bash), and cloud computing experience. Knowledge of silicon design tools and methods is a plus. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and operational efficiency within Google's globally distributed infrastructure.
Must have:
  • 5+ years Linux systems and administration experience
  • 3+ years programming/scripting (Python, Bash)
  • Experience with cloud systems design and infrastructure
  • Troubleshooting advanced technical issues
  • Automation and process improvement skills
Good to have:
  • Puppet configuration management
  • Terraform provisioning experience
  • Experience with filesystems (NFS, Lustre, Cloud Filestore)
  • Knowledge of silicon design tools (RTL to GDS workflows, FlexLM)
  • Linux networking and security fundamentals

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with Linux operating systems internals and administration, technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting), and with reliability of technical infrastructure.
  • 3 years of experience with one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash).

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience in Cloud Systems Design.
  • Experience with configuration as code such as Puppet configuration management.
  • Experience with one or more cloud computing environments.
  • Experience with filesystems, including Network File System, Lustre, Cloud Filestore and Infrastructure as code such as Terraform provisioning experience.
  • Knowledge of silicon design tools and methods (electronic design automation), including knowledge of RTL to Graphic Data System (GDS) workflows and FlexLM license servers.
  • Knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and security fundamentals.

About the job

Systems Development Engineering (SDE) at Google is a role where you manage services and systems at scale. SDEs creatively put their engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We don’t just write code to fix bugs, but emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We know it’s hard to control what you can’t measure – so we focus on observability: instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and finally knowledge into action. We know that the operational efficiency of Google systems, services, virtual compute environments and the operating systems that power them impact the environment, not just the bottom line. We know that working together we can do more, and that community matters.

Google 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.

Together we engineer and build the infrastructure, tools, access and telemetry for systems that enable orchestration of Google-scale services. Come build things that matter.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, implement, and maintain computing infrastructure for use by internal teams.
  • Create new, and improve existing, Linux computing, storage, and networking environments running on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Improve operations work and reduce support toil by proposing and implementing automation and process improvements.
  • Troubleshoot advanced technical issues within a large scale Linux computing environment.
  • Participate in limited on-call rotation and monitoring of production distributed computing infrastructure.
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