Staff Software Engineer, Colossus SRE

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent

practical experience.

• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages.

• 3 years of experience leading projects.

• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed

systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• Experience with technical direction of team members, performance, system

architecture, systems data analysis and debugging

• Experience with distributed storage.

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.

Colossus Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is responsible for the low-level

filesystems that form the basis of Google's storage systems: one of the largest

data storage systems in the world. Our goal is to provide efficient and scalable

storage for Google's data. We work closely with our dev partners to provide

system analysis and design, automation, tooling, and customer consultation to

meet these goals.

Our team works closely with developers across storage systems up and down the

stack including D, Colossus, Chronicle, Blobstore/Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and

others.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% 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.

• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve

systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

• Partner with Development and SRE leadership to design and drive efforts to

increase the scalability, reliability, efficiency and security of cluster

local filesystem services.

• Drive technical direction and planning of integrating new services and flows

into the Colossus SRE support.