Systems Development Engineer, Observability, Public Sector

As a Systems Development Engineer (SDE) at Google, you will manage services and systems at scale. You will creatively put their engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We focus on observability, instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and finally knowledge into action.

We focus on building and influencing solutions that can manage production of air-gapped cloud environments, derived from our experience running and managing these environments. We're especially interested in improving quality metrics and telemetry so we can find and fix problems right away. In this role, you'll work closely with operations teams, product teams, and Program Managers to balance quick responses, future development, and meeting business needs.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with internal teams to keep our production infrastructure running smoothly.
2. Lead the design and implementation of large and complex systems that help the team achieve its goals.
3. Troubleshoot technical issues, evaluate technical data, and develop recommendations for systems and services within the domain.
4. Participate in on-call service rotation.
5. Contribute to maintaining systems, as well as occasionally writing documentation and developing or integrating new components.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with systems automation, and with systems design and implementation.
• Experience in coding or scripting in languages including Go, Python, Java or Bash.
• Active US Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance with polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in Kubernetes.
• Experience with Linux/Linux Kernel.
• Experience in monitoring solutions (e.g., CheckMK, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, VLANs, Load Balancing, etc.).

This role offers a competitive salary range of $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits, with the specific salary determined by factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Google is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.