Staff Systems Developer Manager, AlphaNet Core SRE

Google LLC; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 216,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems on Google Cloud. You will lead critical software components and contribute to reliability, uptime, and performance at scale.

The role emphasizes incident response, automation, and cross‑team collaboration, with opportunities to mentor teammates and drive production improvements across multiple services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages: Go, Python, C++.
• 4 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, and working with administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

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 availability and performance of mission critical services, 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.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programmng languages: Go, Python, C++.
• 4 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, and working with administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

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.

We operate Google’s SDN enabled campus aggregation and WAN production networks and drive its transformation to achieve industry defining levels of reliability, efficiency and scalability to meet ever‑evolving customer needs.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $216000 - $221000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• 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 availability and performance of mission critical services, 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.

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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