Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience managing people or teams, leading projects, and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills and a sense of ownership.
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.
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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 diversity, 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.
In this role, you will work with other Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in the Sydney and New York teams, along with the developer partner teams to help ensure that our services meet the current and evolving needs of our clients.
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
- Manage and amplify the culture of an SRE team to drive projects that improve system health, efficiency, and user trust.
- Own the SRE engagement of Storage Components with the developerpartners, inclusive of roadmap and future portfolio investment opportunities. Produce and review technical solutions and roadmaps in alignment with partners.
- Review incidents to promote production excellence and continuous learning.
- Build strong partnerships with other core data teams.
- Participate in a Tier-1 on-call rotation.