Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering

Google•Pittsburgh, PA

3h•$147,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) treats operations as a software problem. The team works to progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind Google’s public services, including Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, with a focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity. SRE keeps important, revenue-critical systems running through outages and configuration problems, and also has the authority to fix, extend, and scale code to keep systems working and make them more resilient to Internet conditions. The work combines systems and software engineering. SRE engineers work across a broad range of systems and scales, from disk-driver I/O scheduling to service capacity across continents, and drive reliability and performance across Google’s production systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Write product or system development code.
Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices, including style guidelines, code submission, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt it based on product or program updates and user feedback.
Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing their sources and impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among available technologies.