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Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering

Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • DevOps

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java

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python

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networking

Job Description

This Systems Engineer III position within Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google focuses on building and maintaining large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. Responsibilities encompass the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement. This includes managing support services, ensuring system availability and performance, developing automation to prevent issues, and building automated responses. The role requires expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design, and involves working with global production systems in cloud environments. SRE's culture emphasizes collaboration, problem-solving, and continuous improvement within a supportive environment.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
2+ years programming experience (Python, C++, Java, etc.)
2+ years system/network administration experience
Improve service lifecycle
Manage support services
Maintain service health and availability
Scale systems sustainably

Good to have:

Master's degree in CS or Engineering
Experience with global-scale production systems
Experience architecting and troubleshooting systems
Experience with distributed systems

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
2 years and above experience one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
2 years of experience working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Experience in managing and operating global-scale production systems in cloud environments.
Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting systems.
Experience 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 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.

Responsibilities

Improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
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 critical 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 sustainable incident response.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity.

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