Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Steering in London

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Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Steering

Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Steering in London

London Full-Time No working from home possible

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience managing people or teams.
3 years of experience leading projects.
3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Direct technical experience in production infrastructure and high availability systems.
Familiarity with Networking and Domain Name System (DNS).

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's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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.
To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

The Traffic Steering SRE team is responsible for ensuring users around the globe connect to Google's services and cloud platform reliably and efficiently including managing Google's domain name system (DNS) infrastructure and the advanced telemetry pipelines that optimize network performance and user experience.

In this role, you will load balancing and DNS, putting you at the centre of the infrastructure relied upon by every service at Google.

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

Manage a mature team of engineers, on a variety of interesting and transformational projects, contributing to their career development and success.
Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
Serve as an escalation point for launch planning, feature deployment, and incident management.
Take part in and manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.