Senior Software Engineer, Android Site Reliability Engineering
- Location
- Onsite (Sydney, NSW)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
Posted 1 week ago
About the role
Join Google's Android Site Reliability Engineering team to manage mission-critical infrastructure powering the global Android ecosystem. You will build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems to ensure reliability, uptime, and performance for both internal and external services.
Skills
Software Development
Programming
Distributed Systems
System Design
Site Reliability Engineering
Android Infrastructure
Coding
Algorithms
Complexity Analysis
Code Review
Debugging
Incident Triage
Reliability Engineering
Capacity Planning
Performance Optimization
Automation
Full job details
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.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
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 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.
Android Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) manages the mission-critical infrastructure powering the global Android ecosystem of devices. The mission is to bridge the reliability gap between mobile and web platforms, building user trust through availability. We empower Product and Development teams to scale securely and seamlessly.
Responsibilities:
- Write product or system development code.
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.