Senior Software Engineer, CorpNet Site Reliability Engineering

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 large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience in Linux system administration, networking fundamentals or system design experience.

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. 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 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. 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

• Defend our service SLOs, participating in a sustainable tier-1 on call rotation and supporting a blameless postmortem culture.
• Participate in the ongoing development of our services, ensuring they continue to operate in a highly reliable, low toil fashion.
• Act as service owner for one or more of our services, taking primary responsibility for that service and becoming the subject matter expert for that service.
• Collaborate with our partner teams to proactively identify risks inside our corporate systems and potential solutions to simplify or reduce risk to Googlers' productivity or business processes.
• Look for opportunities to apply new technologies such as AI to solve traditional system engineering issues in exciting new way.