Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud Filestore, 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.
• 2 years of experience leading projects.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with managing hosted services/SaaS including one or more of the following programming/scripting languages: Java, C, C++, Go, Python, shell, Perl, JavaScript.
• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Excellent ability in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Excellent problem-solving approach, with effective communication skills.

What you'll be doing:

• Improve the whole life-cycle 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 by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. Lead 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:

• Google corporate benefits
• Located in Dublin, Ireland
• Opportunity to work on large-scale, fault-tolerant systems
• Intellectual curiosity and problem-solving culture
• Collaborative environment with diverse backgrounds and experiences