Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with data structures/algorithms and software development in one or more programming languages.
- Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration, or networking and debugging/troubleshooting.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, high performance, distributed systems.
- Experience in navigating enterprise software, deployment and management of workloads in the cloud.
- Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale complex enterprise systems.
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
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's servicesboth our internally critical and our externally-visible systemshave reliability, uptime appropriate to users needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SREs 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, youll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.
SRE's culture of diversity, 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.
To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
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
- Work with other SREs, the Development team, and the Cloud Support organization to ensure that Cloud Spanner's reliability and performance meets our customers needs, while being efficient and with manageable operational load.
- Plan and execute projects that improve reliability or efficiency.
- Work collaboratively with Software Engineers and other partner teams to continuously evolve and expand Cloud Spanner capabilities.
- Work non-standard, on-call rotation work hours, including weekends.
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