Systems Engineer, Database systems

Systems Engineers embrace Google’s motto to ensure millions of users can access the world’s information without a glitch. As a Systems engineer focusing on databases at Google, you design, implement and maintain our relational database systems for performance and reliability. You’re responsible for tuning and configuring our data platforms as well as building tools to monitor, troubleshoot and automate our systems. You propose test plans and interface with external groups, developers and application owners to arrive at optimal solutions. Other areas of responsibility include designing and enhancing disaster recovery and backup systems.

With your technical expertise, you design, implement and improve processes, procedures and automation for all database-centric areas. You also test the systems in place and interface with external groups.

Google.com Engineering makes Google’s internal services fast and reliable for Googlers. The team combines software development, networking, and database administration expertise to build and run massively distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure.

You are a technology expert who loves being in the center of the action, and you will routinely manage complex software and systems issues ranging from distributed change propagation on live serving systems, to designing and deploying cost-aware database systems. You will assist the team to get to the end goal and manage a part of the huge issues that will arise and make sure it’s fixed.

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.

Responsibilities

Engineer and run database infrastructure to meet performance, security, high availability and other requirements.

Interact with business analysts and developers to ensure the overall database and systems design of business applications meets requirements of performance, security and high availability.

Perform operational DBA duties in a large-scale, complex environment – this will include patching, environments cloning, database upgrades and application upgrades, implementing backup and monitoring procedures.

Migrate third-party business applications to cloud platform.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent practical experience.

3 years of experience designing and managing systems.

Coding experience in Java, Python, Shell scripting and/or Go.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience with troubleshooting techniques and ability to analyze and resolve difficult technical issues quickly in a high pressure environment.

Experience in configuration and deployment tools using Puppet or Chef.

Experience in Linux Systems and Networking.

Exposure to databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, etc) and other relational databases.