Google Cloud's services need reliability, uptime, and fast improvement. The SRE team works to improve the latency, reliability, and observability of L7 Load Balancing with Google Cloud, delivering secure, low-latency, high bandwidth, cost-effective ingress and egress proxies.
Requirements
- 8 years of experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Go).
- 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- 3 years of experience leading projects.
- Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
- Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, VLANs, Load Balancing, etc.).
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and creative uses of AI to evolve systems, pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Develops software platforms and frameworks.
- Make changes directly in binaries.
Other
- Ability to work across time zones, including weekend on-call work.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
