Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud IRT

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• 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.
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents as part of an on-call rotation.

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience in telemetry systems, incident and risk management.

• Ability to work across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.

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.

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of service 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.
• Build systems and tooling to support Cloud IRT team; improve visibility into state of Cloud, detection of large scale issues, communications to customers, stakeholders and customer facing teams.

Participate in oncall rotation supporting critical incident response for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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