Systems Development Engineer, Observability, Public Sector

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with systems automation, and with systems design and implementation.
• Experience in coding or scripting in languages including Go, Python, Java or Bash.
• Active US Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance with polygraph.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in Kubernetes.
• Experience with Linux/Linux Kernel.
• Experience in Monitoring solutions (e.g., CheckMK, Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, VLANs, Load Balancing, etc.).

About the job

As a Systems Development Engineer (SDE) at Google, you will manage services and systems at scale. You will creatively put their engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We focus on observability, instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and finally knowledge into action.

We focus on building and influencing solutions that can manage production of air-gapped cloud environments, derived from our experience running and managing these environments. We're especially interested in improving quality metrics and telemetry so we can find and fix problems right away. In this role, you'll work closely with operations teams, product teams, and Program Managers to balance quick responses, future development, and meeting business needs.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal teams to keep our production infrastructure running smoothly.
• Lead the design and implementation of large and complex systems that help the team achieve its goals.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, evaluate technical data, and develop recommendations for systems and services within the domain.
• Participate in on-call service rotation.
• Contribute to maintaining systems, as well as occasionally writing documentation and developing or integrating new components.