Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, YouTube Metadata

1 Day ago • 8 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), YouTube Metadata role at Google in Zurich, Switzerland, requires leading a team of Software/Systems Engineers to ensure service uptime and performance. Responsibilities include owning end-to-end availability, building automation to prevent issues, mentoring the team, managing on-call rotations, and designing/delivering software to improve service efficiency and scalability. This role necessitates expertise in distributed systems, software development, and project leadership. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical skills with leadership abilities to maintain and enhance YouTube's metadata infrastructure.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years people/team management
  • 3+ years project leadership
  • 3+ years experience with distributed systems
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience managing people or teams.
  • 3 years of experience leading projects.
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime.
  • Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. 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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