Software Engineer II, SRE

Google; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to blend software and systems engineering for large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. In this role, you'll tackle complex challenges unique to cloud services, focusing on optimizing systems and automating processes. Join a culture that values intellectual curiosity and collaboration, where you'll be empowered to work on meaningful projects in a supportive environment. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance your skills while contributing to the reliability and performance of critical systems.

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience with software development in programming languages.
• Experience with data structures or algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve.

Skills

Software Development

Data Structures

Algorithms

Coding

System Design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages during coursework/projects, research, internships, or practical experience in school, work, or Open Source projects.

1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.

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.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

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