Senior Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems and working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).
• 2 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership.

Nice to haves:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field.

What you'll be doing:

• Improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and on building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. Lead sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

Perks and benefits:

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• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• Culture of belonging and providing equal employment opportunity.
• Accommodations for Applicants form available for those in need.
• English proficiency requirement for all roles.
• Google does not accept agency resumes.