Senior Site Reliability Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
- 5 years of experience in managing people and with software development in one or more programming languages, and 4 years of experience in leading projects.
- 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with mobile development, application deployment with the knowledge of coding, networking, operating systems and storage.
- Experience in algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design with Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance and application issues.
- Experience in problem-solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems.
- Experience in recruiting, managing managers and managing a team of engineers on projects.
- Excellent management and communication skills.
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.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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Software and Systems Engineers, including iteration and task planning. Manage end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
- Lead and establish credibility with the quality of the teams technical execution. Drive technical projects and provide leadership in a changing environment. Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution and success of technical projects.
- Develop goals and strategy for the team. Build relationships and influence internal customers and partner teams. Manage on-call rotations across continents.
- Work with other Engineering teams to reuse and understand existing frameworks. Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning and strategies in a fast growth economic environment.
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