Software Engineering Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

3 Months ago • 8-13 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Software Engineering Manager II at Google Cloud's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the availability and performance of key services. Responsibilities include managing on-call rotations, building automation to prevent issues, improving service scalability and efficiency, and mentoring team members. The role requires strong technical expertise in distributed systems, software development, and problem-solving. You'll be working with large-scale, massively distributed systems, ensuring high reliability and uptime for Google's services. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. Strong leadership and communication skills are crucial for success.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years people management experience
  • Distributed systems design & troubleshooting
  • Lead engineering teams and projects
  • Improve service availability, scalability, latency, efficiency
Good to have:
  • Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
  • Expertise in large-scale distributed systems design & troubleshooting
  • Code debugging, optimization, and automation skills
  • Systematic problem-solving and communication skills

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of people management experience, and experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and 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'll 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 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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