Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud
Description For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud
Google Cloud's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic organization. This role combines software and systems engineering expertise to build and maintain large-scale, distributed systems that power Google Cloud's services. The position offers unique challenges in managing complex systems at Google's scale, focusing on reliability, uptime, and continuous improvement.
As an SRE, you'll be responsible for the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement. Your work will directly impact both internal and external systems, ensuring they meet customer needs for reliability and performance. The role involves significant software development, particularly in optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and creating automation solutions.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience in distributed systems, software development, and technical leadership. You'll need expertise in debugging, optimization, and automation, combined with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. The position offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology while collaborating with diverse, intellectually curious professionals in a blame-free environment.
Google Cloud's SRE team promotes self-direction and meaningful project work, while providing support and mentorship for continuous learning and growth. You'll be part of an organization that values diversity, encourages collaboration, and empowers engineers to think big and take risks. The role offers the chance to work on unique scalability challenges while contributing to the infrastructure that makes Google's product portfolio possible.
If you're passionate about large-scale systems, have a strong technical background, and want to work at the forefront of cloud infrastructure, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact while growing your career at one of the world's leading technology companies.
Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement
- Support services before they go live through activities such as 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, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
- 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
- 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
- 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
- Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
- Systematic problem-solving approach
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
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