Site Reliability Manager, Platforms and Devices, SRE
Job Summary
Job Description
The Site Reliability Manager (SRE) at Google leads a team of software and systems engineers, managing the availability and performance of mission-critical services. Responsibilities include task planning, building automation to prevent issues, collaborating with internal teams, managing on-call rotations, and driving technical projects. The role demands expertise in problem-solving, distributed systems, algorithms, data structures, and Unix/Linux systems. The SRE team focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation, addressing the unique challenges of Google's scale. The ideal candidate will have excellent management and communication skills and a proven track record of leading engineering teams and delivering projects on time and within budget. Growth and development of engineering talent are also key aspects of this role.
Must have:
- 8+ years experience managing engineering teams
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Expertise in algorithms, data structures, and software design
- Unix/Linux, IP networking, performance analysis skills
- Lead and manage technical projects
- Excellent communication and management skills
Good to have:
- Mobile development experience
- Application deployment experience
9 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in recruiting and managing a team of engineers on projects.
- Experience in problem solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems.
- Experience in algorithms, data structures, analysis and software design with Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance and application issues.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with mobile development, application deployment.
- Ability to set and drive strategies while providing technical guidance to the team, enabling them to execute and deliver products on time and within budget.
- Excellent management and 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'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.To learn more: check out our books on or read a about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software and systems engineers, including iteration and task planning.
- Manage end-to-end availability and performance of mission services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
- Build relationships and influence internal customers and partner teams. Manage on-call rotations across continents. Work with other engineering teams to reuse and understand existing frameworks. Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
- Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution and success of technical projects. Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning and retention strategies in a growth economic environment.
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