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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treatoperations as if it’s a software problem. Our mission is toprogress, protect, and provide for the software and systemsbehind all of Google’s public services - Search, Ads, Gmail,Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, to name just a few - with anever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, andcapacity.

This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry. Liketraditional operations groups, we keep important, revenue-criticalsystems up and running despite hurricanes, bandwidth outages,and configuration problems. Unlike traditional operations groups,we also have full access to and authority to fix, extend, and scalethe code to keep it working and harden it against all the vagariesof the Internet. We hire people from both systems and softwarebackgrounds. Strong candidates will have experience with both.

Just as what we do is unique, where we do it is unique too. AtGoogle, we have the good fortune to have developed manyinteresting systems ranging from planet-spanning databases tonear real-time scalable data warehousing to fault-tolerantdatastream joining. In SRE, we flip between the fine-graineddetail of disk driver I/O scheduling to the big picture ofcontinental-level service capacity, across a range of systems anda user population measured in billions. We own those productsin production. We drive reliability and performance acrossmassive scale by mastering the full depth of the stack. Weliterally do learn something new every day - usually surprisingthings - that have the potential to transform the lives of billions ofour users around the world.

As a Systems Engineer on the SRE team, you will work on large-scale system design and troubleshooting, and be fluent insystems programming and/or automation. You will have a desireto tackle the complex problems of scale which are unique toGoogle. Familiarity with running production environments atscale is crucial in this job along with an in-depth understandingof Unix systems internals, and networking.

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Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability,

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scalability, latency, and efficiency of Google's services.Solve problems relating to mission critical services and buildautomation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal ofautomating response to all non-exceptional serviceconditions.Influence and create new designs, architectures, standardsand methods for large-scale distributed systems.Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting,software performance analysis and system tuning.Conduct periodic on call duties using a follow-the-sun model.

Minimum qualifications

BS degree in ComputerScience or relatedtechnical field, orequivalent practicalexperience.Experience in one ormore of: C, C++, Java,Perl, Python, Go, orscripting experience inShell and Perl.Experience working withUnix/Linux systems fromkernel to shell andbeyond, with experienceworking with systemlibraries, file systems, andclient-server protocols.Networking: experiencewith network theory e.g.TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc.,MAC addresses, IPpackets, DNS, OSI layers,and load balancing.

Preferred qualifications

Expertise in designing,analyzing andtroubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.In-depth knowledge ofoperating systems(processes, threads,concurrency issues, locks,mutexes, semaphores,monitors and how theywork).Familiarity withalgorithms, datastructures and complexityanalysis.Systematic problemsolving approach, coupledwith a strong sense ofownership and drive.

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Behind everything our users see online is the architecture builtby the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. Fromdeveloping and maintaining our data centers to building the nextgeneration of Google platforms, we make Google's productportfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineersand love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we canrebuild them. We're always on call to keep our networks up andrunning, ensuring our users have the best and fastestexperience possible.

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