Minimum qualifications:

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.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Experience working with one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Kotlin, Go or Python.
Experience technical in production infrastructure.
Experience with large-scale search and query fulfillment systems.
Experience in problem solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems.
Experience in UNIX/Linux systems, IP networking, performance and application issues.

About the job:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Search Fulfilment Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) are the stewards of the core heart of Search, ensuring the systems that understand your queries and return results are fast, reliable, and always evolving. We power the critical components, handling millions of requests per second to deliver the most relevant and helpful information to users worldwide. Powering classic Google Search to AI Overviews, we make it all happen.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities:

Serve as a subject-matter expert, providing technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to other team members.
Own and drive outcomes for complex projects that enhance the performance, reliability, and efficiency of these systems.
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
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.

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Search Fulfillment

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