Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Buying Platform Ads

WeAreTechWomen; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech organization is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability of large-scale systems. Candidates should have a strong background in software development, particularly in distributed systems, along with technical leadership experience. The role emphasizes the use of AI to optimize performance and requires collaboration across teams while promoting continuous learning and mentorship within a supportive environment. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required, with preferred qualifications including a Master's degree.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with software development.
• 3 years in designing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2 years of project leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Employ AI techniques to revolutionize Developer Velocity.
• Deliver high priority projects from inception to completion.
• Collaborate across teams to improve system configuration.

Skills

Software development in programming languages

Designing and troubleshooting distributed systems

Technical leadership

Problem-solving skills

Experience with algorithms and data structures

Passion for AI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience in problem-solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, and eager to learn new technologies and languages.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design or experience in performance and application issues.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, foreign systems from first principles, with a focus on technical deep-diving into code bases, applications and storage systems.
• Passionate for AI and awareness of emerging tools, market trends, and strategic opportunities within the AI landscape.

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.

Drive the future of site reliability by designing and implementing an autonomous AI system that analyzes production alerts, investigates incidents, and intelligently executes actions to automatically resolve routine events, thereby shifting our focus to next-generation development. Represent and protect the user experience of Google's advertising users and help grow the advertisers that partner with us by particularly focusing on the reliability and efficiency of the systems under our care.

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

• Employ AI techniques to scale impact by 10x, revolutionizing our Developer Velocity, Reinforce System Reliability, and Maximize Machine Resource Efficiency.
• Deliver on near and long-term high priority projects separately from inception to completion, requiring minimal supervision.
• Collaborate across teams, sharing expertise in building tools and solutions for system configuration, maintenance, and scaling. Improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), monitoring, and production health compliance of critical Buying Platform systems.
• Apply SRE principles of reliability, predictability, convergence, and efficiency to proactively identify and solve issues and provide on-call coverage for key Buying Platform systems/flows.
• Participate in activities such production and design reviews, post mortem reviews, Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT) and serve as a reliability expert, providing guidance and support to our partner engineering teams.

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.