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Senior Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

You will lead a multi-site engineering organization to ensure the end-to-end availability, performance, and architectural resilience of Google's collaboration platform. Responsibilities include mentoring the team, managing follow-the-sun on-call rotations, and building automation to improve system scalability and efficiency.

Sunnyvale, California, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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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.

Which skills does this role require?

People managementProject leadershipDistributed systemsCapacity planningPerformance analysisOperational excellenceProduction strategyDistributed SystemsScalabilityLatencyData CentersProduction StrategyOperational ExcellenceCollaboration PlatformFollow-the-sunOn-callMachine Learning

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