Software Engineering Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the forefront of maintaining and optimizing the company's massive distributed systems. As a Software Engineering Manager II in SRE, you'll lead a team responsible for ensuring Google's services maintain optimal reliability and performance. The role combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems.

The position offers unique challenges of scale specific to Google's infrastructure, requiring expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You'll be responsible for leading a team that manages critical systems, both internal and customer-facing, focusing on reliability, uptime, and continuous improvement.

The role involves significant leadership responsibilities, including mentoring team members, managing on-call rotations across different time zones, and driving technical excellence. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and creating automation solutions to eliminate manual work.

Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which includes SRE, is fundamental to making Google's product portfolio possible. The team takes pride in being "engineers' engineers" and approaches challenges with both technical depth and creativity. The culture emphasizes diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment.

This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology at unprecedented scale, lead and develop talented engineers, and directly impact billions of users worldwide. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and strategic thinking, making it ideal for experienced engineering managers who want to work on some of the most complex and impactful systems in the technology industry.

For those interested in learning more, Google has published books on Site Reliability Engineering and offers detailed career profiles about why engineers choose to join SRE. The role combines the excitement of technical challenges with the satisfaction of leadership and mentorship, all while working on systems that affect users globally.