The Staff Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role at Google Cloud focuses on building and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.  Responsibilities include leading designs for improved service availability, scalability, and efficiency; leading incident response and postmortems; providing guidance to team members on managing availability and performance; mentoring and training others; and managing individual project priorities.  The SRE team ensures Google Cloud services have high reliability and uptime, using coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design expertise.  The role requires strong problem-solving skills and effective communication.

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<div jscontroller="iYVHDc" class="DkhPwc" jsname="tIk9qd" data-id="74239299620348614" jsaction="A6AxKc:CXOOvf;"><div class="KwJkGe"><h3>Minimum qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.<br></li>
<li>5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.</li>
<li>3 years of experience working with Unix/Linux systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).</li>
<li>3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.</li>
</ul><br><h3>Preferred qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.<br></li>
<li>Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.<br></li>
<li>Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.<br></li>
<li>Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.<br></li>
</ul></div><div class="aG5W3"><h3>About the job</h3><p>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. <br><br>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 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.</p>
<p>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.</p></div><div class="BDNOWe"><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul>
<li>Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Google's services.<br></li>
<li>Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities for Google.<br></li>
<li>Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.<br></li>
<li>Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards, and to cultivate innovation and collaboration across multiple teams.<br></li>
<li>Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.<br></li>
</ul></div></div>

Staff Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud