Systems Engineer

Google.com Engineering makes Google's services fast and reliable for hundreds of millions of users. Described as "software engineering for adrenaline junkies", the team combines software development, networking, and systems administration expertise to build and run massively distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure. We hire research mavens who love being in the center of the action, and we routinely tackle complex software and systems issues ranging from distributed change propagation on live serving systems, to designing and deploying cost-aware load balancing systems for the largest user-facing service in the world.

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You'll own the production services which comprise *.google.com, and critical infrastructure like GFS, BigTable, MapReduce and large-scale 'cloud computing' clusters.

The most successful candidates for this role will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, fluency in coding, algorithms and systems design, solid communication skills and a desire to tackle the complex problems of scale which are uniquely Google. We are particularly interested in software engineers and unix programmers familiar with aspects of running web services at scale -- depth in networking technologies and Unix internals are strong pluses.