Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Requirements

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

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate tasks.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

What You'll Be Doing

• Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle 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 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 Cloud's services reliability and uptime.
• Fast rate of improvement.
• Opportunity to manage the complex challenges unique to Google Cloud.
• Intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness culture.