Staff Software Engineer, Colossus SRE

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, build, and operate incredibly large and distributed systems in the Colossus storage stack. You’ll apply coding, algorithms, and systems design expertise to improve reliability and performance across Google Cloud.

The role focuses on scaling, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with development and SRE leadership to ensure uptime and efficiency. This is an in-person interview role in New York.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years of leading projects.
• 3+ years of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

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.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Partner with Development and SRE leadership to design and drive efforts to increase the scalability, reliability, efficiency and security of cluster local filesystem services.
• Drive technical direction and planning of integrating new services and flows into the Colossus SRE support.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems design

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience with technical direction of team members, performance, system architecture, systems data analysis and debugging
• Experience with distributed storage.

About The Job

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 SRE’s 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. Colossus Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is responsible for the low-level filesystems that form the basis of Google's storage systems: one of the largest data storage systems in the world. Our goal is to provide efficient and scalable storage for Google's data. We work closely with our dev partners to provide system analysis and design, automation, tooling, and customer consultation to meet these goals. Our team works closely with developers across storage systems up and down the stack including D, Colossus, Chronicle, Blobstore/Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and others. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Responsibilities

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• 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.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Partner with Development and SRE leadership to design and drive efforts to increase the scalability, reliability, efficiency and security of cluster local filesystem services.
• Drive technical direction and planning of integrating new services and flows into the Colossus SRE support.

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 .