SRE Engineering Manager: Scale, Reliability & Leadership

WeAreTechWomen; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant services with reliability and uptime as priority. You'll work on optimizing existing systems and eliminating manual work through automation.

As a senior SRE leader, you will mentor engineers across continents, automate responses to incidents, and design scalable systems that perform efficiently for users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of people management experience.
• 3 years of experience leading projects and working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

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.

Skills

Programming experience

People management

Project leadership

Networking fundamentals

Systems programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

TCP/IP

SDN

Systems administration

Job description

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant services with reliability and uptime as priority. You'll work on optimizing existing systems and eliminating manual work through automation.

As a senior SRE leader, you will mentor engineers across continents, automate responses to incidents, and design scalable systems that perform efficiently for users.