Site Reliability Engineering & Software Engineering III

Google Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. The role focuses on software and systems engineering, requiring at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 2 years of software development experience. The ideal candidate will collaborate with teams and tackle complex challenges in maintaining system reliability. This position offers a dynamic work environment that promotes continuous learning and growth.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience designing and analyzing large-scale distributed systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve them.
• Participate in design reviews to decide on available technologies.

Skills

Software development

Systems engineering

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering III

Google London, UK

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 SREs 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 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, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

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.

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