Director, Site Reliability Engineering, Core Networking

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

23h • $294,000 - $414,000

About The Position

As part of Technical Infrastructure, Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline for building and running large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) come from both software engineering and systems engineering backgrounds and specialize in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale production services. SRE ensures that Google’s services - both our internally critical and our externally visible systems - have reliability and uptime appropriate to users’ needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance. Along with a set of engineering approaches, SRE is a mindset of running better production systems. We build our own creative engineering solutions to operations problems. Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation. SRE is responsible for the big picture, determining how our systems relate to each other, using a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices, such as limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems, and proactive identification of potential outages, factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting, dynamic day-to-day work. 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. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in network engineering or service/site reliablity engineering.
• Experience in large-scale system design, algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design, or experience in Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance, and application issues.

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving technical programs in network deployment/engineering, product design, network content delivery, or data center networking within telecommunications or internet industries.
• Experience working in a commercial, product, or technology role within IP networking.
• Deep understanding of data networks and supporting product features, services, and technologies (e.g., networking protocols at layers 2 and 3, SDN principles, automation in data centers).

Responsibilities

• Reinvent our internet facing WAN, intra data center WAN, campus, and metros to build the next generation of Google networking software and hardware.
• Work cross-functionally with product area leads from technologies up and down Google's very tall and deep stack to guide product engineering to build fast, reliable, and durable production systems.
• Manage, lead, and grow a team of talented SREs.
• Own, innovate, and create programs, new software, and analytics that drive improvements to availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
• Manage on-call rotations of engineers across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
• Balance feature velocity with reliability and cost efficiency.
• Create the reality of a near-infinite scaling network for Google Cloud and Google services.
• Partner with an array of teams working in the networking space to set the strategic direction for the team.

What This Job Offers

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