Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Job description

Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. - 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. - 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership. Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. About the job: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. Our mission is to progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind all of Google’s public services - Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, to name just a few - with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity. This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry. Like traditional operations groups, we keep important, revenue-critical systems up and running despite hurricanes, bandwidth outages, and configuration problems . Unlike traditional operations groups, we also have full access to and authority to fix, extend, and sca...