Systems Development Engineer, Sovereign Cloud Operations, Google Public Sector

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to manage Google-scale services and systems, focusing on automation, observability, and reducing toil. You will build tools and infrastructure to measure, learn, and act on system data, while supporting government customer deployments and on-call rotations.

The role stresses collaboration, mentorship, and building reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure. Team culture emphasizes diverse backgrounds, risk-taking in a blame-free environment, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or IT-related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with systems automation and with systems design and implementation.
• Experience in automation and scripting in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, Perl, or Bash.
• Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, and maintain internal systems and customer portals.
• Support services before they go live through 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 automation and evolving systems to improve reliability and velocity.
• Perform complex day-to-day troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure issues with engineering teams.

Skills

Automation experience

Scripting

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

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.
• Experience in automation and scripting in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, Perl, or Bash.
• Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Preferred qualifications

• 3 years of experience working with vendors or customers.
• Experience administering cloud services or container-based applications or workloads.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration products.
• Experience designing secure, well-architected systems based on customer requirements.
• Experience troubleshooting across Linux- and Kubernetes-based architectures.

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.

In this role, you will support United States Government customers by delivering cloud infrastructure and service-based solutions. You will mentor team members, participate in scheduled on-call rotations, and build reliable tools that bring Google Cloud's infrastructure closer to where mission-critical data is generated and consumed.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $138000 - $197000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop, configure, and maintain internal systems and customer portals.
• Support services before they go live through 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, evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Perform complex day-to-day troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure issues, collaborating with engineering teams to implement customer requirements.

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 .