Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Distributed Cloud

Google London, UK

• 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.

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

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 customers' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SRE 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 issues of scale 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.

• 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 post mortems.

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