Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Steering
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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.
- Direct technical experience in production infrastructure and high availability systems.
- Familiarity with Networking and Domain Name System (DNS).
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 our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.
To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
The Traffic Steering SRE team is responsible for ensuring users around the globe connect to Google's services and cloud platform reliably and efficiently including managing Google's domain name system (DNS) infrastructure and the advanced telemetry pipelines that optimize network performance and user experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage a mature team of engineers, on a variety of interesting and transformational projects, contributing to their career development and success.
- Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
- Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
- Serve as an escalation point for launch planning, feature deployment, and incident management.
- Take part in and manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
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