Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

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 have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. The team focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation. The Technical Infrastructure team develops and maintains data centers and Google platforms, ensuring network uptime and performance.

• 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.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Engage and improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception, design, deployment, operation and refinement.
• Create and help services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services 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 environment.

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