Staff Systems Development Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with systems automation, and with systems design and implementation.
- 8 years of experience with technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting), and with reliability of technical infrastructure.
- 5 years of experience with either Linux Administration, Kubernetes, Networking or Storage.
- 5 years of scripting experience (e.g., Bash, Perl, Python or Ruby) to automate routine tasks.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience working with vendors or customers.
- Experience with server hardware, storage, networking, site reliability engineering or IT production engineering.
- Experience with product testing or beta testing.
- Understanding of TCP/IP and basic networking concepts (e.g., PXE boot, Subnets, VLANs, Jumbo Frames, LACP, NIC Teaming, Unicast/Broadcast/Multicast, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, SSH, etc.).
- Passion for technology and delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Excellent communication, people management, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
About the job
Systems Development Engineering (SDE) at Google is a role where you manage services and systems at scale. SDEs creatively put their engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We don’t just write code to fix bugs, but emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We know it’s hard to control what you can’t measure – so we focus on observability: instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and finally knowledge into action. We know that the operational efficiency of Google systems, services, virtual compute environments and the operating systems that power them impact the environment, not just the bottom line. We know that working together we can do more, and that community matters.
Google 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.
Together we engineer and build the infrastructure, tools, access and telemetry for systems that enable orchestration of Google-scale services. Come build things that matter.
Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offers a platform for air-gapped environments, supporting training, development, and operational validation. This platform ensures stability for internal teams and drives improvements for external customers. GDC's air-gapped solutions provide complete isolation, meeting strict security standards while offering integrated cloud services, including AI/machine learning, in an open ecosystem built on Kubernetes. Flexible hardware and configurable operations allow customers to tailor deployments to their needs.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Guide a team of infrastructure operators in daily operations, ensuring adherence to production best practices and Service Level Objective (SLO) attainment. Mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth and development.
- Manage the customer zero platform, encompassing capacity planning, incident response, and change management. Identify and address operational pain points, collaborating with the product team to implement and deliver solutions to customers.
- Provide actionable feedback to the Product team, driving long-term fixes and collaborating with the Operations Excellence team to refine the operational model.
- Work closely with platform administrators to understand their needs and partner with internal development teams to address bugs and usability issues.
- Deploy and manage Google Distributed Cloud environments using public documentation, becoming a subject matter expert and participating in customer and partner training.
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