Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud Storage

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.
• 2 years of experience working with Unix/Linux systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

Nice to haves:

• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills.

What you'll be doing:

• Improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• 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.

Perks and benefits:

• Google is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• Opportunity to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.