Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Senior
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$13,075 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
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About the role
- About the job Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it's a software problem.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, 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 have
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it's a software problem.
- This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry.
- Like traditional operations groups, we keep important, revenue-critical systems up and running despite hurricanes, bandwidth outages, and configuration problems.
- Unlike traditional operations groups, we also have full access to and authority to fix, extend, and scale the code to keep it working and harden it against all the vagaries of the Internet.
- We hire people from both systems and software backgrounds.
- Strong candidates will have experience with both.
- Just as what we do is unique, where we do it is unique too.
Compensation
- $174k-$252k
Benefits
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
Company info
- At Google, we have the good fortune to have developed many interesting systems ranging from planet-spanning databases to near real-time scalable data warehousing to fault-tolerant datastream joining.
This listing is sourced directly from Google's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.