Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

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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 internally critical and externally visible—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users’ needs and a fast rate of improvement. SRE teams focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software and systems engineers on projects for users and take direct responsibility for uptime.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services by building automation to prevent problem recurrence and automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution by leading through example.
• Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google’s services.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience managing people or teams.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience with Google infrastructure in general, and Borg networking and edge infrastructure in particular.
• Understanding of advanced networking concepts, such as BGP routing, encapsulation, software-defined networks, etc.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering

Industries

Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet

EEO Statement

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. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.