Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Buying Platform Ads

Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Buying Platform Ads

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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 internally critical and externally visible – have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer needs, and a fast rate of improvement. The role focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, automating work, and addressing complex challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience with problem‑solving and analyzing global‑scale distributed systems.
• Experience in Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, or eagerness to learn new technologies and languages.
• Strong background in algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, software design, performance, and application issues.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed systems from first principles, focusing on deep dives into code, applications, and storage systems.
• Passion for AI and awareness of emerging tools, market trends, and strategic opportunities within the AI landscape.

• Employ AI techniques to scale impact by 10x, revolutionizing developer velocity, system reliability, and machine‑resource efficiency.
• Deliver on near‑ and long‑term high‑priority projects from inception to completion with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate across teams, sharing expertise in building tools and solutions for system configuration, maintenance, and scaling; improve SLOs, monitoring, and production‑health compliance of critical Buying Platform systems.
• Apply SRE principles of reliability, predictability, convergence, and efficiency to proactively identify and solve issues and provide on‑call coverage for key Buying Platform systems and flows.
• Participate in production and design reviews, post‑mortem reviews, Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT), and serve as a reliability expert, guiding and supporting partner engineering teams.

Location:

London, England, United Kingdom.

Employment type:

Full‑time. Job function:
Information Technology and Engineering. Seniority level:
Not Applicable.

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