Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, 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.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as

if it’s a software problem. Our mission is to progress, protect, and provide for

the software and systems behind all of Google’s public services - Search, Ads,

Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, to name just a few - with an

ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.

This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry. Like traditional

operations groups, we keep important, revenue-critical systems up and running

despite hurricanes, bandwidth outages, and configuration problems

[http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2014/01/todays-outage-for-several-google.html].

Unlike traditional operations groups, we also have full access to and authority

to fix, extend, and scale the code to keep it working and harden it against all

the vagaries of the Internet. We hire people from both systems and software

backgrounds. Strong candidates will have experience with both.

Just as what we do is unique, where we do it is unique too. At Google, we have

the good fortune to have developed many interesting systems ranging from

planet-spanning databases [http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html] to

near real-time scalable data warehousing

[http://research.google.com/pubs/pub42851.html] to fault-tolerant datastream

joining [http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41318.html]. In SRE, we flip between

the fine-grained detail of disk driver I/O scheduling to the big picture of

continental-level service capacity, across a range of systems and a user

population measured in billions. We own those products in production. We drive

reliability and performance across massive scale by mastering the full depth of

the stack. We literally do learn something new every day - usually surprising

things - that have the potential to transform the lives of billions of our users

around the world.

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.Individual pay is determined by factors

including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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.