Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Google Play

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in problem-solving and analyzing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in mobile development and large-scale application deployment.
• Proficiency in algorithms, data structures, software design, or expertise in Unix/Linux systems and IP networking.
• Ability to set strategy, provide technical guidance, and motivate the engineering team to execute effectively.
• Ability to debug complex code and automate routine tasks to improve efficiency.
• Excellent problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills.

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 Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's 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. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. 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.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive product excellence by owning and improving the availability and performance of key products, ensuring a great experience for our global users.
• Envision the reliability roadmap and influence stakeholders to enhance the availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of core platform services.
• Develop and maintain monitoring systems, including instrumentation and dashboards, to accurately measure reliability and the end-user experience.
• Build insightful software tools and influence the design, architecture, and operating standards for large-scale distributed systems.
• Engage in strategic planning, including service capacity planning, demand forecasting, performance analysis, and system tuning.