Director, Cloud SRE & Sovereign Environments

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in Technical Infrastructure is centered on building and running massive, distributed, fault-tolerant production services. SREs blend software and systems engineering to ensure uptime, capacity planning, and continuous improvement across Google's services.

As part of the internal operations, SREs design scalable automation, implement runbooks, and integrate SRE practices into shipped software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience with system design, algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design or with Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance and application issues.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE) operating outside of public cloud data centers.

Responsibilities

• Drive the transformation of Google’s internal operational processes, tools, and practices to enable partners to operate the cloud autonomously while maintaining service parity and Google rollout velocity.
• Ensure that SRE principles (SLOs, alerting, runbooks, diagnostics) are built directly into the shipped software so external infrastructure operators can operate it reliably without Google's intervention.
• Redesign incident response, monitoring, and debugging paradigms for universes where Google SREs do not have ambient access.
• Oversee support tiers, including extended workforce who act as Level 3 support or manage canonical pre-production/staging environments.
• Manage reliability for a massive, globally distributed "fleet of fleets." This includes managing lifecycle operations (Day 0 turnup, Day 1 install, Day 2 repairs) in addition to software reliability.

Skills

System design

Algorithms & data structures

Unix/Linux systems

IP networking

Performance optimization

Kubernetes/GKE

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes/GKE

Job description

Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in Technical Infrastructure is centered on building and running massive, distributed, fault-tolerant production services. SREs blend software and systems engineering to ensure uptime, capacity planning, and continuous improvement across Google's services.

As part of the internal operations, SREs design scalable automation, implement runbooks, and integrate SRE practices into shipped software.