Systems Development Engineer, Google Distribute Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting).
• 3 years of experience with systems administration and automation.
• 3 years of experience with Network protocols and troubleshooting.
• 3 years of experience with scripting or automation using Python or Go.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience working with vendors or customers.
  
  

About The Job

Systems Development Engineering (SDE) at Google is a role where you manage services and systems at scale. SDEs creatively put their engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We don’t just write code to fix bugs, but emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We know it’s hard to control what you can’t measure – so we focus on observability: instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and finally knowledge into action. We know that the operational efficiency of Google systems, services, virtual compute environments and the operating systems that power them impact the environment, not just the bottom line. We know that working together we can do more, and that community matters.

Google 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.

Together we engineer and build the infrastructure, tools, access and telemetry for systems that enable orchestration of Google-scale services. Come build things that matter.

In this role, you will focus will be on developing tools and processes to scale our rack design and deployment. Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) delivers edge cloud solutions, including AI, security, and open source software, directly to customer premises—essentially, "the Cloud in your closet." This on-premises cloud infrastructure offers benefits such as reduced latency, resilience against network outages, and adherence to data sovereignty regulations.

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

• Design and develop software solutions for Google Distributed Cloud cross-functional teams/partners and drive technical outcomes (repeatable solution development, implementation, troubleshooting).
• Deploy and configure solutions on GDC racks and servers.
• Understand data center-specific network architecture and leverage that knowledge to contribute to network and elevation designs.
• Maintain and improve existing solutions, update and optimize solutions to enhance performance and functionality.
• Document technical designs and implementations, create clear and concise documentation for developed solutions and processes.
  
  
  

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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.