This position is based in Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Mountain View, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA or Seattle/Kirkland, WA

Responsibilities:
Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Google services by engineering reliability into software and systems
Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; build tools and automation to prevent problem recurrence
Review and influence new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems
Participate in software and system performance analysis and tuning, service capacity planning and demand forecasting
Perform periodic on-call duty as part of a global team

Minimum Qualifications:
BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)
3 years of relevant work experience, including with Unix/Linux systems requiring the use of languages like Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Shell or PHP
Technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience

Preferred Qualifications:
6 years relevant work experience, including in a high-volume or critical production service environment as well as experience leading short projects involving outside teams
Experience coordinating or leading small cross-team technical projects
Experience in OSes and systems (e.g. UNIX internals, device drivers, FreeBSD), open source tools (e.g. dtrace, ktrace), web service components (e.g. load balancing, LAMP stack), storage and clustering (e.g. column stores, Hadoop), scripting and programming languages (e.g. Erlang, Haskell, Scala or Scheme)
Strong written and spoken English language skills