Senior Software Engineer, Google Compute Engine Virtual Machine Site Reliability Engineering

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Nice to Haves:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Engage in and improve the whole 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:

• Intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness culture within the team.
• Opportunity to work on challenging projects in a blame-free environment.
• Support and mentorship for learning and growth.