Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Colossus SRE

Google • Dublin, Ireland

Posted 3w ago🏛️ On-Site Senior Site reliability engineer 📍 Dublin

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Skills & Technologies

C++System architecture Performance analysis Capacity planning Debugging Monitoring Data analysis

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working with large-scale storage systems, file systems, or critical infrastructure.
Experience in C++.
Experience in system architecture, performance analysis, capacity planning, and debugging production issues.
Understanding of system and service observability, monitoring, and data analysis.
Ability to lead technical projects, set technical direction, and drive a culture of technical excellence.

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.

Colossus SRE is responsible for the low-level filesystems that form the basis of Google's storage systems: one of the largest data storage systems in the world. Our goal is to provide efficient and scalable storage for Google's data. We work closely with our dev partners to provide system analysis and design, automation, tooling, and customer consultation to meet these goals.

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.

Perform Site Reliability Engineering work and projects across the service to improve performance and reliability of the service.
Work with partner development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and SRE leadership to design and deliver different programs and projects in a scalable, reliable and secure manner.
Be a full member of the Colossus SRE on-call rotation. Support Colossus at global scale and ensure the very many dependent systems can always deliver.
Drive technical direction of Colossus SRE team
Help shape team culture and goals of the team by bringing your own knowledge and perspective, and by advocating for SRE best practices.

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