Site Reliability Engineer, Video Processing

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their Video Processing team in Zürich. This unique role combines traditional operations with software engineering, focusing on maintaining and improving Google's critical video processing infrastructure. The position is part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, which handles operations as a software problem, managing Google's public services including Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine.

The role involves working across the full technology stack, from low-level disk driver I/O scheduling to continental-level service capacity planning. You'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of Google's video processing, upload, and transcoding systems. This includes designing and implementing features for YouTube's next-generation video processing pipeline and collaborating with infrastructure teams to resolve issues.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in computer science with at least 2 years of experience in software development and distributed systems. You'll be working with planet-spanning databases, real-time scalable data warehousing, and fault-tolerant datastream joining systems. This position offers the opportunity to impact billions of users worldwide while working with cutting-edge technology and solving complex technical challenges.

As part of Google's SRE team, you'll be at the forefront of maintaining and improving critical systems that power some of the world's most-used services. The role offers the unique opportunity to learn something new every day while working with a diverse team of experts in both systems and software engineering. If you're passionate about reliability, scalability, and solving complex technical challenges, this role offers an excellent opportunity to work on systems at massive scale.