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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Quota SRE
GoogleSeattle, WA, USASenior8+ years
Apply Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- 5 years of experience with site reliability engineering focused on building and maintaining scalable, reliable systems.
- 5 years of experience in software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role.
- Experience leading complex process improvement projects and influencing and managing stakeholder relationships.
- Experience in troubleshooting and debugging of complex distributed systems
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.
The Quota Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team supports services that are foundational to core aspects of running services in production. Many teams within Google use services such as Quotaserver and Bouncer to implement security policies, safety guardrails, regulations, internal protection, accounting mechanisms, etc or Slicer to enable dynamic autosharding, load balancing, and caching for stateful services.
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: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Develop strong, influential relationships with multiple stakeholders across the Site Reliability Engineering and Developer organizations.
- Serve as an expert on particular fields of knowledge related to rate limiting or sharding.
- Develop plans and lead projects on evolving our production systems and their reliability.
- Identify internal and external opportunities to improve systems.
- Provide oncall support for onboarded services.
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