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Systems Engineering Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering

Bavaria, Germany (On-site)

Systems Engineering Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering

5 Days ago • 5-10 Years • Backend Development

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Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
5 years of experience with software development
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
2 years of experience in a people management role
3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
1 year of experience with software design and architecture
Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Excellent problem-solving and verbal/written communication skills

Good to have:

Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role
3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Excellent problem-solving and verbal/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 will lead a team and be responsible for products globally, providing technical leadership to key projects and empowering and developing teams to do the same.

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 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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