Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, YouTube Data

19 Hours ago • 2-4 Years • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

This Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role at YouTube focuses on ensuring the reliability and scalability of YouTube's large-scale data processing systems. Responsibilities include being on-call for real-time and batch data processing, scaling systems through automation, managing support services, providing guidance to team members on availability and performance, and maintaining services post-launch. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software development, with a strong understanding of SRE principles. The role involves optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating tasks to improve reliability and velocity.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 2+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
  • Software development experience
  • On-call support for data processing systems
  • System scaling and automation
  • System design consulting
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or Engineering
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Experience with capacity planning and launch reviews

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures/algorithms and software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

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 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.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

  • Be on-call for real-time and batch data processing systems.
  • Scale systems through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
  • Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and on building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health, and lead to a sustainable incident response.

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