Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Zero-Trust Context

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.

We are a Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for infrastructure that applies the security context required to make policy decisions across zero-trust environments.

Joining our team will expose you to the bleeding-edge of Google networking, security, and reliability infrastructure a team where you can be a part of our mission to expand context-aware access protection by default to Google and Google’s users, customers, partners and third parties.

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

• Lead a team of Software Engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime.
• 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.
• Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.

Qualifications

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.
• Experience in cloud/cyber security and SRE, with a focus on implementing Zero Trust architectures, infrastructure security, and secure deployment pipelines in high-availability environments.
• Technical proficiency in distributed systems and networking fundamentals, specifically regarding SSH, VPN tunnels, and traffic routing within large-scale cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and security policy, applying security-by-design principles to manage and protect large-scale cloud infrastructure.