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Software Engineering Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering

Bavaria, Germany (On-site)

Software Engineering Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering

6 Days ago • 8-13 Years • Backend Development • DevOps

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Job Description

As a Software Engineering Manager II in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google, you will lead a team responsible for the global uptime and performance of key services. Responsibilities include owning service availability, building automation to prevent issues, automating responses to non-exceptional conditions, and managing on-call rotations. You will mentor your team, design and deliver software to improve service efficiency, and ensure scalability. The role requires expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design within a massively distributed, fault-tolerant environment. You'll manage complex challenges unique to Google's scale, contributing to a culture of diversity, problem-solving, and continuous improvement. The team ensures reliability and fast improvement rates for Google's internal and external systems, maintaining a watchful eye on capacity and performance.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
8+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
5+ years software development experience
3+ years people management experience
Experience with distributed systems
Lead engineering teams
Own service availability and performance

Good to have:

Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
Debugging, code optimization, automation skills
Excellent communication skills

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience with people management, designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
Excellent problem-solving, 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'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 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 or read a about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team and be responsible for products globally, providing technical leadership to key projects and empowering and developing teams.

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

Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be responsible for uptime.
Own availability and performance of key services, build automation to prevent problem recurrence, and automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Lead by example, mentor the team, and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.

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