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.

Intent-driven capacity management is understandable, trustworthy, efficient, and involves minimal human interaction, for all people involved.

Our domain is the control and actuation mechanisms within Spatial Flexibility (go/spatial-flexibility), where we support PARM and Service Owner journeys. We are the guardians of production within our domain to ensure reliability and trustworthiness of the whole. We advocate for the users and represent their needs and their benefits when using the system.
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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Apply site reliability engineer principles of reliability, predictability, convergence, and efficiency to machine resource management and spatial flexibility.

• Participate in 24/7 on-call coverage for key spatial flexibility infrastructure.

• Design and build processes and tools that improve the reliability and efficiency of machine resource management.

• Augment existing infrastructure through design, configuration and code, to improve trustworthiness and reliability.

• Perform Disaster Recovery Tests (DiRT) for key spatial flexibility infrastructure.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in coding, debugging/troubleshooting, and monitoring.

• 5 years of experience in systems architecture.

• 3 years of experience with developing infrastructure and distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience working with systems and system design.

• Familiarity with the business processes involved in planning, acquiring, or provisioning machine resources to system services.

• Ability to navigate among multiple stakeholders and developer partners outside of the direct team.