Technical Lead, Site Reliability Engineering corporate_fare Google place Sydney NSW, Australia Apply 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, SREs 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 unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.
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 our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
In this role, you will help provide technical outlook and clarity to the team, identifying and driving projects to solve our most critical technical challenges.
Our goal is always service reliability and a major part of our focus is on identifying ways to make our system more reliable for the many different new workloads we are seeing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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.
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 evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications: Master's in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
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