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Google Senior Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in Zürich, Switzerland

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.

  • 5 years of experience managing people and with software development in one or more programming languages, and 4 years of experience leading projects.

  • Experience in Site Reliability Engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

  • Experience as a functional lead for a site reliability team of a product at scale.

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 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) or read a career profile (https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/) about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

Our team is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of Workspace Platform, a collection of core services that are crucial infrastructure for the Workspace suite of products used by many people worldwide. We run the Workspace enterprise facing policy servers and compliance systems, and ensure our systems meet the needs for the business and its promise to uphold regulatory requirements.

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.

  • Lead a Workspace Controls and Infrastructure SRE team split between Sunnyvale and Zurich.

  • Provide technical leadership and drive strategic alignment with senior Software Engineering leadership including ATLs. Build relationships with leadership to align on priorities, plans, and timelines.

  • Lead planning, execution, and delivery of a roadmap focused on standardizing the stack, improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness, improving reliability, and enabling faster experimentation iterations.

  • Support and grow the team (e.g., building team identity, recruiting and retaining talent, identifying growth opportunities for team members).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

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