Senior SRE Engineer — Scale, Reliability, Impact

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to keep critical services up and running at scale across Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube and App Engine. You will treat operations as a software problem, focusing on availability, latency, performance and capacity.

You'll work across a range of systems from data centers to platform services, owning reliability and performance, with the freedom to fix, extend and scale code.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS or related field.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software development experience

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to keep critical services up and running at scale across Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube and App Engine. You will treat operations as a software problem, focusing on availability, latency, performance and capacity.

You'll work across a range of systems from data centers to platform services, owning reliability and performance, with the freedom to fix, extend and scale code.