Site Reliability Manager, Play and Android SRE

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software engineering.
• 8 years of experience in people management.
• 6 years of experience developing and managing partnerships.
• 5 years of experience in the field of Quality/Reliability Engineering.

• Proven experience leading and scaling engineering organizations across multiple sites.
• Experience managing and delivering large, complex, cross-functional technical programs.
• Strong understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud technologies, mobile ecosystems (like Android and Play), and production operations.
• Track record of building strong partnerships with developer organizations and aligning engineering efforts with business strategy.
• Demonstrated passion and skill in coaching, mentorship, and career development for both managers and individual contributors, especially executive engineers.

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 our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's 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 Cloud, 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.

Android's core functionality and user experience are deeply intertwined with Google Play, the primary engine for app discovery, distribution, updates, and business generation. Reliability failures in either platform, or at their crucial interface, can prevent users from installing or updating apps, block business streams for developers and Google, compromise device security through missed updates, and severely erode user trust.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $365000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

• Manage and grow the multi-site Play and Android SRE organization, driving a culture of excellence and long-term goal.
• Hire, coach, and mentor SRE Managers and executive individual contributors (Staff+), ensuring robust career development and team growth.
• Partner with developer leads to align SRE strategy with product goals, advocating prioritization to focus resources on critical initiatives.
• Conceive and execute complex, high-impact programs that require cross-functional collaboration across Google.
• Implement scalable processes to deliver technical guidance, maintain top reliability, and enable managers to present data-driven business reviews.

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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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