Systems Engineer, Corporate

This position is based in Sydney, Australia.

The area: Technical Infrastructure

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're always on call to keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The role: Systems Engineer, Corporate

As a Systems Engineer working on Google’s corporate infrastructure, you will have the opportunity to define and influence the strategy and technical direction of one of the world's greatest and most energetic companies. Google believes that the future of Enterprise IT is in the cloud and is working hard to realise that vision for its internal systems.

Google has committed itself to completely reinventing the notion of enterprise IT, moving away from LAN services and private networks in favour of internet services and open, flat networks. Your challenge will be to devise and implement solutions to realize massive gains in efficiency and performance, and to publish and disseminate that work as far as possible to the outside world.

You will build systems that are used for internal and external use. Design redundancy and extensive use of App Engine means that you’ll spend less time answering a pager, and more time architecting, creating and delivering enterprise solutions to our users. You’ll also provide invaluable feedback to the Cloud Platform Group and play a hand in shaping where and how services are delivered in the cloud.

The most successful candidates for this role will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; fluency in coding or scripting, solid communication skills; and a desire to solve complex problems of scale which are uniquely Google. We are particularly interested in systems administrators and Unix programmers familiar with running web services at scale. Depth in networking technologies and Unix/Linux internals are strong pluses.

Responsibilities:

• Manage availability, latency, stability and efficiency of Google corporate services
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems and build automation tools to prevent problem recurrence
• Design, review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems
• Deploy and maintain web servers, file servers, firewalls, directory services, DNS, etc.
• 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)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of relevant work experience with Unix/Linux systems
• Experience coordinating or leading small to medium cross-team technical projects
• Fluency in at least one high-level programming language (Python, Perl, C/C++, Java or similar) and strong scripting skills.
• Experience in OSes and systems (e.g. UNIX internals, device drivers), 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 knowledge of TCP/IP networking, network and application-level security, and OS internals (filesystems, storage, process lifecycle, etc).
• Knowledge of webservers, firewalls/security, NFS, DNS, MTAs.