Senior Software Engineer, SRE, Cloud Incident Response

Company: WeAreTechWomen
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 20, 2025

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, and 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• Experience in SRE or incident management/response environments.Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
  • Experience in telemetry systems, incident and risk management.
  • Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with strong verbal and written communication abilities.About the jobSite 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 externally-visible systems-have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer needs, and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SREs monitor system capacity and performance continuously.Our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you'll manage the unique challenges of scale at Google Cloud, leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. We foster a culture of curiosity, problem-solving, and openness, encouraging collaboration, big thinking, and risk-taking in a blame-free environment. We support self-directed work on meaningful projects and provide mentorship to facilitate growth. Our team maintains the architecture behind Google's online presence, from data centers to next-generation platforms, ensuring optimal network performance for users.Responsibilities
    • Ensure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stability and reliability through critical incident support, focusing on high-quality customer outcomes and cross-team collaboration.
    • Create training materials and processes for incident management, partnering with Cloud Support leadership.
    • Develop systems and tools to improve incident response visibility, issue detection, and communication with customers and stakeholders.
    • Identify and escalate risks in Cloud services, implementing tactical measures to reduce major incident probabilities.
    • Support the scalability and reliability of systems throughout their lifecycle by participating in pre-launch activities, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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