Senior Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

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

Job summary

A leading technology company located in Sunnyvale, California, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building and maintaining large-scale systems. The ideal candidate should possess a degree in Computer Science and have significant experience in programming and distributed systems. Responsibilities include improving service life-cycles and managing incident responses. The role offers a competitive salary between $166,000 and $244,000, plus bonuses and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5 years of programming experience.
• Experience with distributed systems and system administration.
• 2 years of project leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Improve the life-cycle of services from design to operation.
• Guide team on availability and automation.
• Monitor live services and lead incident responses.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation.
• Manage support services pre-launch.

Skills

Programming in one or more languages

Designing distributed systems

Troubleshooting system administration

Networking knowledge (TCP/IP)

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Overview

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer\'s needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SREs 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 Cloud, 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.

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Guide team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
• Monitor services once they are live by measuring availability, latency, and overall system health, and lead to sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems and working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).
• 2 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master\'s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

EEO and Compliance

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 Google\'s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.