Site Reliability Engineer

Software Engineer II, Site Reliability Engineering

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  
• Experience delivering complex projects in large-scale systems.
  
• Experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
  
• Excellent collaboration and database skills.

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's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE. 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.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, 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

Responsibilities

• Manage Google Cloud Spanner allocations, automate management processes, and accelerate central management across Google.
• Focus on convergence (delivering a platform to manage Spanner allocations), reliability, and efficiency.
• Perform planning and execution of projects that improve reliability or efficiency, and work collaboratively with Site Reliability Engineers, Software Engineers, and other partner teams to continuously evolve and expand Spanner manageability.
  
• Work with other Site Reliability Engineers, the Development team, and the Cloud Support organization to ensure Spanner is easy to manage reliably and efficiently, meeting our customers' needs with minimal operational load.
• Be part of a tier 2 on-call rotation.

Focus on convergence (delivering a platform to manage Spanner allocations), reliability, and efficiency.Focus on convergence (delivering a platform to manage Spanner allocations), reliability, and efficiency.

Experience Level

Senior Level