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This position is based in Mountain View, CA.
Google.com Engineering makes Google's services fast and reliable for hundreds of millions of users. This mission critical team (also known as Site Reliability Engineering) combines software development, networking, and systems engineering expertise to build and run large scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure. We hire creative engineers and technology enthusiasts who enjoy being challenged by problems of scale and complexity, with a strong desire to make services better for users. We routinely solve software and systems issues ranging from distributed change propagation on live serving systems, to designing and deploying intelligent load balancing systems for the largest user-facing services in the world. Our teams come from diverse backgrounds, and we are actively seeking new team members to bring fresh perspective to solving problems, along with the technical and soft skills needed to keep Google’s services growing and reliable.
Launch Lead Engineers are involved in almost every user-visible product or feature launch at Google.
As an LLE, you will work with teams to choose the correct production design and implementation, including storage, network, provisioning, load balancing, replication, diagnostics, monitoring, and job configuration, and analyze each launch's potential effect on the stability and reliability of the product and on shared common infrastructure. Engagements may vary from a lightweight email discussion, an involved architectural and process review meeting, or an engagement of more than a year to help guide an engineering team through and around reliability/latency pitfalls with their product. You will serve as the voice of caution and experience to engineering teams while also assisting them in explaining the impact of their project to the oncall operators of Google.com.
In this role you will have a broad exposure to Google services and technologies, and a successful LLE will thus develop a broad range of technical skills and a global view of Google's product direction. Examples of LLE breadth ae illustrated by the diversity of their engagements: on one engagement you will consult on minimizing worldwide response time for ad clicks, on another you will help design cross-datacenter load-balancing strategies for Instant search, on a third you will design lightweight yet safe accelerated launch processes for Google Labs, and on a fourth engagement you will prescribe rate-limiting algorithms to prevent server overload from desktop client products (Chrome, Toolbar, etc.). See below for an expanded list of typical LLE projects.
This is a senior role that requires strong communication and interpersonal skills, serious analytical ability, a talent for reconciling conflicting interests, and the technical fluency to give concise or in-depth guidance based on a given developer team's needs. You will develop the judgment to quickly and correctly assess the level of risk in a given change, and create mitigation plans for riskier innovations. The ideal candidate is self organizing, detail oriented, has strong technical skills, and is able to easily communicate with both the development and operations worlds.
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