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Google · 8 hours ago

Staff Systems Development Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud

Seattle, WA, USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$183K/yr - $271K/yr

8+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that is seeking a Staff Systems Development Engineer for their Google Distributed Cloud team. The role focuses on managing services and systems at scale, emphasizing automation and operational efficiency to enhance reliability and performance of technical infrastructure.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Perform complex day-to-day troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure issues (e.g., Network, Storage, Servers, OS, Kubernetes, etc.)

Participate in customer, partner, and internal team deployments which will require international travel

Be able to personify and own the IO persona experiences defined in GDC air-gapped product

Participate in the 24x7 on-call rotation to support escalations from client deployments as well as internal reference deployments

Qualification

Systems automationTechnical infrastructureKubernetesTCP/IP networkingScripting languagesSite Reliability EngineeringCustomer empathyProblem-solving skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience

8 years of experience with systems automation, and with systems design and implementation

8 years of experience with technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting), and with reliability of technical infrastructure

3 years of experience with Kubernetes or a similar container orchestration platform

3 years of experience with TCP/IP networking and diagnosing and resolving network-related issues

Preferred

8 years of experience working with vendors or customers

Experience as a Customer Solution Engineer

Experience with physical servers, storage, and network devices, as well as scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.), to help automate routine tasks

Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or IT production systems engineering

Ability to empathize with customers and understand their needs

Excellent investigative and problem-solving skills

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

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2023 (9682)

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2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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