Systems Development Engineer

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Systems Development Engineer (Mid) to design, automate, and operate scalable services. You will help build tools and telemetry to reduce toil and improve observability across Google-scale systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and handling deployments, maintenance, and troubleshooting in a complex infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with systems automation and with design/implementation.
• 3 years of experience with deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting of technical infrastructure.
• 3 years of experience working with vendors or customers.

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call activities and manage systems within the domain.
• Troubleshoot issues, evaluate data, and propose solutions within SLAs.
• Collaborate with customers to define distributed systems requirements and testing.

Skills

Systems automation

Systems design

Infrastructure troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Vendor relations

Job description

Systems Development Engineer

Google

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with systems automation, and with systems design and implementation.
• 3 years of experience with technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting).

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience working with vendors or customers.

About the job

Systems Development Engineering (SDE) at Google is a role where you manage services and systems at scale. SDEs creatively put their engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We don’t just write code to fix bugs, but emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We know it’s hard to control what you can’t measure – so we focus on observability: instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and finally knowledge into action. We know that the operational efficiency of Google systems, services, virtual compute environments and the operating systems that power them impact the environment, not just the bottom line. We know that working together we can do more, and that community matters.
Google 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.
Together we engineer and build the infrastructure, tools, access and telemetry for systems that enable orchestration of Google-scale services. Come build things that matter.

The ML, Systems, and Cloud AI (MSCA) organization at Google designs, implements, and manages the hardware, software, machine learning, and systems infrastructure for all Google services (Search, YouTube, etc.) and Google Cloud. Our end users are Googlers, Cloud customers and the billions of people who use Google services around the world.

We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$189,000 + 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.

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Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call activities and manage the systems within the domain and work with the primary responders to help fix system issues.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, evaluate technical data, and develop recommendations for systems and services within the domain, respond to tickets/bugs within team-defined service-level objectives (SLOs), and contribute to systems and services in related domains through bug reports and consultation.
• Work with customers on defining distributed systems requirements, testing procedures, and proposing solutions.