Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Public Sector

Google • Reston, VA

6d • $174,000 - $255,000

About The Position

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 be a part of the engineering-driven transformation for
building our cloud platforms. You will ensure our systems operate within secure
environments. You will use your experience running distributed systems to drive
insights and new technology that improves the reliability of our operational
stack, working to eliminate systemic toil and enforcing the architectural
excellence. You will support the critical public sector services and to solve
problems at Google scale.

Google Public Sector
[https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/public-sector/#:~:text=We're%20committed%20to%20advancing,%2C%20research%2C%20and%20edtech%20companies.]
brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with
solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States
public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we
continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex
needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 3 years of experience working with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design.
• Experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Google Public Sector airgapped 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 through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level