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Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineer

Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineer

2 Weeks ago • 2 Years + • DevOps

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algorithms

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Job Description

This Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineer role at Google focuses on ensuring the reliability and uptime of Google Cloud services. Responsibilities include reviewing code for best practices, contributing to documentation, writing code for product/system development, troubleshooting and resolving system issues, and participating in design reviews. The role requires experience with data structures/algorithms, software development, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication abilities. The SRE team at Google manages the complex challenges of scale, using coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design expertise. The culture emphasizes collaboration, problem-solving, and a blame-free environment.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
2+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
Experience with software development
Troubleshooting and debugging skills
Code review and feedback
System design participation

Good to have:

Experience with distributed systems
Experience in computing, storage, or networking
Automation experience
Excellent communication skills

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with data structures/algorithms and software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
Excellent problem-solving and verbal and written 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 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

Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
Write product or system development code.
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide on available technologies.

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