This Systems Engineer III role within Google Cloud's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team focuses on cloud databases.  Responsibilities encompass the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to maintenance and optimization.  You'll manage project priorities, develop software solutions, ensure system health, and lead incident response.  Experience with Unix/Linux systems, distributed systems, and programming languages is crucial. The role involves collaborating with team members, automating tasks, and scaling systems for sustained performance and reliability.  The ideal candidate is a problem-solver with excellent communication skills, contributing to a culture of improvement and innovation within a large-scale, globally distributed system.

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<div jscontroller="iYVHDc" class="DkhPwc" jsname="tIk9qd" data-id="131015041120903878" 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>2 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.<br></li>
<li>2 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).<br></li>
</ul><br><h3>Preferred qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.<br></li>
<li>Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.</li>
<li>Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.<br></li>
<li>Excellent problem-solving and 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>In this role, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.</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>Improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.<br></li>
<li>Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.<br></li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health, and lead incident response and blameless postmortems.<br></li>
<li>Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity.<br></li>
</ul></div></div>

Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Databases