About the role
What will you do at Google?
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent
practical experience.
* 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming
languages.
* 5 years of experience managing people.
* 4 years of experience leading projects.
* 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting
distributed systems.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
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's services—both our internally critical and our
externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms,
complexity analysis and large-scale system design.
SRE's culture of 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.
To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering
[https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html] or read a career profile
[https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/]
about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Collaboration SRE, you will lead a
multi-site engineering organization across Sunnyvale and Zurich. As the leader
for Drive and Docs SRE, you will own the end-to-end production strategy,
architectural resilience, and operational excellence of Google’s flagship
collaboration platform.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the
Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and
maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google
platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our
engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we
can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have
the best and fastest experience possible.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,
experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $262000 - $365000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be
directly responsible for uptime.
* Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build
automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all
non-exceptional service conditions.
* Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality
technical execution.
* Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
* Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability,
latency and efficiency of Google's services.
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