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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat
operations as if its a software problem. Our mission is to
progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems
behind all of Googles public services - Search, Ads, Gmail,
Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, to name just a few - with an
ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and
capacity.
This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry. Like
traditional operations groups, we keep important, revenue-critical
systems 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 scale
the code to keep it working and harden it against all the vagaries
of the Internet. We hire people from both systems and software
backgrounds. Strong candidates will have experience with both.
Just as what we do is unique, where we do it is unique too. At
Google, we have the good fortune to have developed many
interesting systems ranging from planet-spanning databases to
near real-time scalable data warehousing to fault-tolerant
datastream joining. In SRE, we flip between the fine-grained
detail of disk driver I/O scheduling to the big picture of
continental-level service capacity, across a range of systems and
a user population measured in billions. We own those products
in production. We drive reliability and performance across
massive scale by mastering the full depth of the stack. We
literally do learn something new every day - usually surprising
things - that have the potential to transform the lives of billions of
our users around the world.

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

Responsibilities
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 build
automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of
automating response to all non-exceptional service
conditions.
Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards
and 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 Computer
Science or related
technical field, or
equivalent practical
experience.
Experience in one or
more of: C, C++, Java,
Perl, Python, Go, or
scripting experience in
Shell and Perl.
Experience working with
Unix/Linux systems from
kernel to shell and
beyond, with experience
working with system
libraries, file systems, and
client-server protocols.
Networking: experience
with network theory e.g.
TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc.,
MAC addresses, IP
packets, DNS, OSI layers,
and load balancing.

Preferred qualifications
Expertise in designing,
analyzing and
troubleshooting largescale distributed systems.
In-depth knowledge of
operating systems
(processes, threads,
concurrency issues, locks,
mutexes, semaphores,
monitors and how they
work).
Familiarity with
algorithms, data
structures and complexity
analysis.
Systematic problem
solving approach, coupled
with a strong sense of
ownership and drive.

Area
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're always on call to keep our networks up and
running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest
experience possible.

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Technical Infrastructure

Los Angeles

Make Google's services fast

and reliable for billions of
users.

Located in the Frank Gehrydesigned Binoculars Building

just two blocks from the
beach, Google Los Angeles
offers some of the most
fascinating engineering and
sales work in the world.
Were helping the second
largest city in the United
States become a veritable
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