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

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience with distributed and parallel systems.
• Strong preference toward consistent and common solutions over custom solutions.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

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 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

• Opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud.
• Culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness.
• Collaboration with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
• Support and mentorship for learning and growth.