Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Alphanet SRE

Google Ireland Ltd; Ireland; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google Ireland Ltd. is hiring an Engineering Manager for AlphaNet Core SRE. You will lead a team operating Google's SDN architecture across campus and wide-area networks, driving improvements in safety and new product introductions.

You will guide SDN stack contributions, improve incident tooling, and oversee Tier-1 emergency responses and root-cause analyses. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, and performance at scale, with opportunities to mentor engineers and automate complex

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field (Bachelor's required).
• 8+ years in software development with multiple languages.
• 3+ years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 3+ years managing people or teams and leading projects.
• Master's degree preferred; experience with networking and large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and ensure uptime.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation.
• Automate responses to non-exceptional service conditions.
• Mentor the team and manage on-call rotations and incident responses.

Skills

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Project leadership

Debugging

Code optimization

Automation

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

Minimum 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 designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. 3 years of experience managing people or teams. 3 years of experience leading projects. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Experience with networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and platforms, SDN). Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks. 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 chose to join SRE. As the Engineering Manager for AlphaNet Core SRE, you will lead a team that operates Google's Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture across our campus aggregation and wide-area production networks. In this role, you will drive strategic efforts to improve network safety and introduce new products to the core networks. You will guide your team's contributions to the SDN stack, improve incident response tooling, and oversee Tier-1 emergency responses as well as root-cause analyses. 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 pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Ireland: € - € (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be 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 and take active part in on-call rotations. Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services. TPBN1_IJ