Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
• 3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems

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
• Excellent problem-solving, with effective verbal and written communication skills

What You'll Be Doing

• Engage in and improve the 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
• Maintain services once they are live 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 postmortems

Perks and Benefits

• Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer
• Belonging at Google and creating a culture of representation
• Equal employment opportunity regardless of various factors
• Global collaboration and English proficiency requirement