Software Engineer, Traffic Trust SRE, DoS Infrastructure

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 diversity, 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.

• Build, test, and maintain security relevant services and supporting infrastructure such as monitoring and distributed configuration delivery systems.
• Provide consulting services to product aligned teams on DoS, general security, capacity, and reliability topics.
• Be a part of an oncall rotation to respond to significant incidents.
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages.
• 2 years of experience working with Unix/Linux systems internals and administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).
Preferred qualifications:
• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
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.