Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field, equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience with coding in C/C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby, with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design. 8 years of experience in architecting, developing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, with concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization. 5 years of experience in leading projects, and providing technical leadership. Preferred qualifications: Experience in collaborating across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve organizational goals. Experience in systems administration with UNIX/Linux and internals, IP networking, monitoring, and alerting. Experience with resource management and capacity planning. Ability to understand the relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives and respond to changing circumstances. Excellent thinking, investigative, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills. Excellent communication skills. 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. 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 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 postmortems. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .