Google Los Angeles Engineering Operations & Management Opportunities

Our Los Angeles offices are strategically located just a few short blocks from sunny beaches in Southern California. We have an average of over 300 days of sunshine within a region that encompasses ocean beaches, deserts and mountains.

Our Los Angeles offices have grown to become one of the largest development centers in the United States. Many of our Google Los Angeles engineers work on some of Google’s hardest problems, in realms such as Search Quality, YouTube, Ads, Video and Photos. Our solutions revolve around Google principles: we put the users first, we love academic endeavors and active learning, and we encourage engineers to spend 20% of their time on their own projects to inspire creativity.

As Google continues to improve and expand the search services it provides to the world, and expand its reach into video, photography and audio, we’ll need the type of engineering talent that can take us to the next level — and the one after. We need engineers just like you.

In little more than a decade, Google created one of the world’s largest global computing infrastructures for both internal and external use. We built it — and will continue to develop and support it — with the world’s most talented administrators. Chances are that we exceed every example of a “large installation” that you’ve encountered in your career as a network, systems or security professional. Using our unique technologies along with open source tools, we keep Google’s customer-facing products running, robust and secure. Our objective is to create solutions that allow people to work and communicate in new and innovative ways — giving back to the world’s technical community whenever we can.

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Systems Engineer, Google.com – Los Angeles

As a Systems Engineer working on Google’s critical production applications and infrastructure, your mission will be to ensure Google is always fast, available, scalable and engineered to withstand unparalleled demand. You will design and develop the systems which run Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Docs, Ads, Blogger, AppEngine, Google+ and more. You’ll own the production services which comprise *.google.com, as well as key infrastructure like GFS, BigTable, MapReduce and large-scale ‘cloud computing’ clusters. You will also be driving performance and reliability from software and infrastructure at massive scale, where even the 0.01% case must be considered. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day, and work with just about every other engineering and operations team at Google. You will be looked upon as an expert and advocate to fellow engineers on making design and reliability trade-offs in running large-scale services and engineering complex systems that fail gracefully and transparently to users. 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 solve complex problems of scale which are uniquely Google. We are particularly interested in software engineers, systems administrators, and Unix programmers familiar with aspects of running web services at scale. Depth in networking technologies and Unix/Linux internals are strong pluses. Qualifications include:

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, Lashell, Scala or Scheme)
• Strong written and spoken English language skills

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