Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 3-5 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
JOB DEscriptION
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 Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Google's services.
Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities for Google.
Provide guidance to other team members on managing end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards, and to cultivate innovation and collaboration across multiple teams.
Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
15 years of relevant work experience in a production environment.
Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: C, C , Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting systems.
Experience with algorithms and data structures and/or Unix/Linux systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) and administration.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience in distributed systems, storage systems, or databases.
Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
