Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Development at Google combines software and systems development to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a Senior Software Developer in Site Reliability Engineering for Google Cloud, you'll ensure that Google's services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs, while maintaining a fast rate of improvement. You'll focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Engaging in the entire lifecycle of services, from design to deployment and refinement
• Supporting services pre-launch through system design consulting, developing platforms, capacity planning, and launch reviews
• Maintaining live services by monitoring availability, latency, and system health
• Scaling systems sustainably through automation
• Practicing sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

You'll have the opportunity to manage complex challenges unique to Google's scale, applying your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. The role requires a blend of software development skills and systems engineering knowledge.

Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which includes Site Reliability Engineering, is crucial in keeping the company's vast array of products and services running smoothly. They pride themselves on being the "engineers' engineers," focusing on building and maintaining the architecture that powers Google's online presence.

This role offers the chance to work in a culture that values diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness. You'll collaborate with people from various backgrounds in a blame-free environment that encourages big thinking and risk-taking, while providing support and mentorship for continuous learning and growth.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred)
• 5+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years experience with data structures and algorithms
• 3+ years experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• 2+ years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership

Join Google's Site Reliability Development team to tackle exciting challenges at a global scale and contribute to the technology that impacts billions of users worldwide.