Site Reliability Engineer

Systems Engineer l, Site Reliability Engineering

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience with data structures and algorithms, and 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.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Excellent collaboration and database skills.

About the job

Hope is not a strategy. Engineering solutions to design, build, and maintain efficient large-scale systems is a true strategy, and a good one.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that 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 and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance.

SRE is also a mindset and a set of engineering approaches to running better production systems—we build our own creative engineering solutions to operations problems. Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. As SREs are responsible for the big picture of how our systems relate to each other, we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work.

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 Site Reliability Engineering, written by Google SREs.


• Watch a recorded Hangout on Air to meet some of our SREs.


• 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.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible to take over the management responsibilities of the GCP Spanner allocs while automating such management and accelerating the path towards central management of Spanner allocs across all of Google.
• Focus on convergence (delivering a "platform" to manage Spanner allocs), reliability, and efficiency.
• Perform end-to-end planning and execution of projects that improve reliability or efficiency. Work collaboratively with Site Reliability Engineers, Software Engineers and other partner teams to continuously evolve and expand Spanner manageability.
• Be responsible for working with other Site Reliability Engineers, the Development team, and the Cloud Support organization to ensure Spanner is easy to manage reliabily and efficiently, meeting our customers' needs with minimal operational load.
• Be part of a tier 2 on-call rotation.

Experience Level

Mid Level