Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

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

equivalent practical experience.

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

languages.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale

distributed systems.

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.

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

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best

practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability,

and efficiency).

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content

based on product/program updates and user feedback.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the

sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations

and quality.

• Participate in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide

amongst available technologies.