Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Billing at Google in New York, NY, USA

Job description

• 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 focus on the reliability, accuracy, and timeliness of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing systems and mission-critical APIs. Our charter is expanding to include more Google Cloud Billing and Payment (GCBP) services while driving AI adoption and tooling improvements across Google Cloud.
• Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Manage availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Google services by engineering reliability into software and systems.
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.

Requirements

• 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 leading projects.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders and work effectively with global teams.

Skills

Required

• Project leadership.

Benefits

• Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.