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.

* 3 years of experience leading projects.

* Experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

* Ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders and work

effectively with global teams.

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

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.

In this role, you will

focus on the reliability, accuracy, and timeliness of
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing systems and mission-critical APIs. Our
charter is expanding to include more Google Cloud Billing and Payment (GCBP)
services while driving AI adoption and tooling improvements across Google Cloud.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,
experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and
design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
* Manage availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Google services
by engineering reliability into software and systems.
* Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; write software and build
automation to prevent problem recurrence.
* Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software
performance analysis, and system tuning.
* Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for
operating services and systems.

Which skills does this role require?

Distributed SystemsCloud BillingCapacity PlanningPerformance AnalysisAPI ManagementProject LeadershipTroubleshootingInfrastructure EngineeringSoftware EngineeringGoogle Cloud PlatformAPIScalabilityProject ManagementCloud ComputingGCP

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