Systems Development Engineer: Deployment & Observability

Google LLC; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks a Systems Development Engineer, Deployment and Support to manage services and systems at scale, focusing on automation and observability for government workloads. You will work with Google Cloud infrastructure and mentor junior engineers in Reston, VA.

Role emphasizes secure, well-architected solutions, on-call rotations, and collaboration across teams to meet customer needs and drive reliability and efficiency.

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.
• Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Scale systems sustainably through automation, engineering scripts and deployment frameworks to execute logical turnups and improve the service lifecycle.
• Architect observability solutions and telemetry pipelines, defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and dashboards to drive system reliability and operational velocity.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex, multi-domain system issues, analyzing root causes to develop tooling and patches that eliminate recurring failures and toil.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with engineering teams and vendors to seamlessly integrate compute and storage stacks, ensuring platform components operate within infrastructure constraints.
• Implement and adapt system configurations to satisfy security frameworks, developing solutions that bridge execution boundaries while protecting proprietary infrastructure and data.

Skills

Systems automation

Systems design

Implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or IT-related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Google Public Sector seeks a Systems Development Engineer, Deployment and Support to manage services and systems at scale, focusing on automation and observability for government workloads. You will work with Google Cloud infrastructure and mentor junior engineers in Reston, VA.

Role emphasizes secure, well-architected solutions, on-call rotations, and collaboration across teams to meet customer needs and drive reliability and efficiency.