Systems Engineer II, SRE

Hope is not a strategy. Engineering solutions to design, build, and maintain efficient large-scale systems is a true strategy, and a good one. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that 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 and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance. SRE is also a mindset and a set of engineering approaches to running better production systems—we build our own creative engineering solutions to operations problems. Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. As SREs are responsible for the big picture of how our systems relate to each other, we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work. 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. To learn more: Check out Site Reliability Engineering , written by Google SREs. Watch a recorded Hangout on Air to meet some of our SREs. Read a career profile about why a software engineer chose to join SRE. 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. Collaborate to support Corp Engineering services, and build relationships with business partners. Drive technical interactions with business partners to come up with innovative ideas for improving reliability for enterprise applications. Leverage Google SRE reliability strategies to span GCP and the Google stack, and reduce the operational work. Work with other engineering teams to ensure that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure, and participate in the team's on-call rotation. Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Experience programming in one or more programming languages. Experience working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN). Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Experience in Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance, and application issues. Experience with problem solving and analyzing enterprise systems. Experience navigating enterprise software, deployment, and management of workloads on Cloud. Experience in an engineering or operations role within enterprise applications or other enterprise spaces.