Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
Description For Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Systems Engineer III to join their dynamic organization. This role combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As an SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and appropriate uptime while continuously improving performance.
The position offers unique challenges of scale specific to Google Cloud, where you'll apply your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and creating automation solutions to eliminate manual work.
The role requires a strong background in computer science or related fields, with at least 2 years of experience in programming languages and system administration or networking. You'll be involved in the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement.
Google's SRE culture emphasizes diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment. The team brings together individuals with varied backgrounds and perspectives, encouraging collaboration and innovative thinking. You'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects while receiving support and mentorship for professional growth.
Key responsibilities include managing service lifecycles, conducting system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch reviews. You'll guide team members in managing critical services, building automation, and maintaining system health through monitoring and incident response.
This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology at a global scale, while being part of a team that values continuous learning and innovation. The role provides an excellent opportunity for those interested in combining software development with systems engineering to create reliable, scalable solutions for millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities For Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
- Improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
- Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and on building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health, and lead sustainable incident response
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity
Requirements For Systems Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2 years and above experience one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript)
- 2 years of experience working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN)
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)
- Experience in managing and operating global-scale production systems in cloud environments (preferred)
- Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting systems (preferred)
- Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems (preferred)
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