Minimum qualifications:

• 1 year of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
• Experience with algorithms and data structures or Unix/Linux systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) and administration.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting systems.

About the job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. Our mission is to progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind all of Google’s 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.

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 keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Execute on projects that will improve the reliability of our Fibit Products.
• Reduce the operational work significantly for our footprint on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Leverage Google Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) strategies to span GCP and the Google stack.
• Optimize existing systems, build infrastructure and eliminate work through automation.
• Design and execute projects to improve the reliability of the Fitbit footprint.