Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming language (e.g., Python, C++, Java).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
About the job
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance.
SRE is also a mindset and a set of engineering approaches to running better production systems—we build our own creative engineering solutions to operations problems. Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. As SREs are responsible for the big picture of how our systems relate to each other, we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work.
SRE's culture of diversity, 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.
Responsibilities
- Optimize the complete service life-cycle, encompassing inception, design, development, operation, and continual refinement.
- Collaborate with partner teams to proactively identify risks within corporate systems and develop solutions that simplify or mitigate adverse impacts on productivity or business processes.
- Support services pre-launch through system design consultation, software framework development, capacity planning, and formal launch reviews.
- Contribute to the sustained development of services, ensuring high reliability and efficiency while systematically minimizing operational toil. Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health metrics.
- Implement sustainable incident response procedures to ensure services consistently meet defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Leverage emerging technologies, such as AI and Machine Learning, to automate and address traditional systems engineering issues.
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