MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent
practical experience.
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5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming
languages.
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5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
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3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting
large-scale distributed systems.
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2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
ABOUT THE JOB:
Site Reliability Development combines software and systems development to build
and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Site
Reliability Development ensures that Google's services—both our internally
critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate
to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally Site Reliability
Developers 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 Site Reliability Development team, you’ll 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.
Site Reliability Development'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.
To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Development
[https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html], watch a recorded Hangout on Air
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwt6TZjefGM&feature=youtu.be] to meet some of
our Site Reliability Developers, or read a career profile
[https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/]
about why a Software Developer chose to join Site Reliability Development.
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:
- 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.
- 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 postmortems.
