Senior Director, Global Infra & Sovereign SRE

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 364,000 - 505,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization is hiring a senior leader in Technical Infrastructure to design, build, and run large-scale, fault-tolerant production systems. You will guide cross-functional teams across software and systems engineering to ensure reliability, capacity planning, and performance while driving automation and efficiency.

The role emphasizes leading distributed teams, growing and shaping engineering organizations, and delivering scalable platforms for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 20 years of experience with system design, algorithms, data structures, analysis, and software design.
• 15 years of experience managing a distributed team of engineers.
• Experience growing and building teams.

Responsibilities

• Create, design & lead innovative programs, software, & analytics that drive improvements to the reliability, scalability, efficiency, & velocity of new platform introductions & existing hardware, out machine management systems, & our node software.
• Work in close partnership with product leads across multiple areas, on technologies up & down Google's tall & deep stack to design & help build fast, reliable & durable production systems.
• 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.
• Own, innovate and create programs, software solutions, process innovations, and analytics that drive improvements to the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Google’s technical Infrastructure and Google Cloud products.
• Architect observability frameworks that provide operational health signals back to Google or empower air-gapped operators without leaking sovereign data.

Skills

System design

Algorithms

Data structures

Software design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization is hiring a senior leader in Technical Infrastructure to design, build, and run large-scale, fault-tolerant production systems. You will guide cross-functional teams across software and systems engineering to ensure reliability, capacity planning, and performance while driving automation and efficiency.

The role emphasizes leading distributed teams, growing and shaping engineering organizations, and delivering scalable platforms for