Software Engineering Manager, Google Home, SRE

Google LLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Sydney is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager for Google Home, SRE to lead a team focused on uptime, performance, and reliability across large-scale systems. You will guide engineers in building robust infrastructure and automation, driving efficiency, and mentoring talent.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of availability, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to lead initiatives across geographies while upholding Google's standards for reliability and

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on uptime-focused projects.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and automate responses.
• Mentor the team and establish credibility through high-quality execution.
• Manage on-call rotations across continents with a follow-the-sun model.
• Design, write and deliver software to improve availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Mentoring/Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Software Engineering Manager, Google Home, SRE

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Preferred 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.

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 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 chosen to join SRE.

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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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