Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Development

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology is looking for a Site Reliability Developer to manage large-scale, distributed systems. This role involves optimizing existing systems, engaging in the service lifecycle, and promoting reliability through automation. You will work in a collaborative environment that emphasizes problem-solving and intellectual curiosity, making a direct impact on system performance.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience with designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design to deployment and operation.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability and system health.
• Support services through system design consulting, developing software platforms, and capacity planning.

Skills

Software development

Data structures

Algorithms

Project leadership

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.

+ 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.

+ 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

+ 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

+ Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Site Reliability Development combines software and systems development to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Site Reliability Development 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 Site Reliability Developers 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 Site Reliability Development 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.

Site Reliability Development'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:c heck out our books on Site Reliability Development (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) , watch a recorded Hangout on Air (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwt6TZjefGM&feature=youtu.be) to meet some of our Site Reliability Developers, or read a career profile (https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-...) about why a Software Developer chose to join Site Reliability Development.

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 developer's developer's 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

+ Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.

+ Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.

+ Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

+ Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

+ Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.