Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Google LLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability Engineering in Sydney. The role leads a team responsible for building and operating large-scale distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and software teams, drive improvements in monitoring and incident response, and oversee automation, SLOs, and capacity planning to maintain production system health.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years of people or team management experience.
• 3 years of leading projects.
• 3 years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of SREs with career development and performance reviews.
• Partner with Software Development teams to design and maintain scalable services.
• Advance monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks.
• Automate tasks and manage SLOs and error budgets for stability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident command in outages; mentor team in Sydney.

Skills

Software development

People management

Distributed systems

Project leadership

SRE concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's/PhD (preferred)

Job description

Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience managing people or teams.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience managing people or teams.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a technical field.
• Experience managing high-performing teams responsible for large-scale, 24/7 production systems.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles, including error budgets, toil reduction, and capacity planning.
• Proven track record of driving cross-functional projects and influencing architectural decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

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 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.

Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team combines software engineering and systems administration to build and operate some of the world's most complex distributed systems. As an SRE Manager, you will lead a team of engineers tasked with ensuring our services are fast, reliable, and available. You will balance the development of new features with the long-term health and stability of the production environment.

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 and grow a team of SREs, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance management.
• Partner with Software Development teams to design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable services.
• Drive the evolution of monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks to ensure rapid detection and resolution of production issues.
• Implement software solutions and automation to eliminate manual tasks and improve the efficiency of systems operations. Manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to balance innovation with system stability.
• Participate in on-call rotations as a manager-escalation point and lead incident command during critical outages. Advocate a culture of engineering excellence, technical curiosity, and continuous improvement within the Sydney office.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.