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Google - Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com - EU Headquarters

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Ireland
Salary: Excellent
Languages: English

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  • Name:
    Google
  • Posted:
    21-05-2012
  • Code:
    G1376572808
Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com - EU Headquarters

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This position is based in our EU Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
The area: Google.com Engineering
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.
The role: Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com
As an Engineering Manager/Director, you will be responsible for one of the most demanding and high-profile departments within Google. You will be accountable for Google?s production services from end-to-end. You will also be responsible for engineering reliability into code, infrastructure, OS, network, and processes used to help Google scale. Other areas of responsibility include dealing with latency and capacity planning/efficient resource utilization.
Responsibilities:

* Directly responsible for Google's stellar uptime record, and are the guardians/custodians of the end-to-end performance and reliability of Google's user-facing services.
* Accountable for ensuring that Google users can always reach and use all of the services under your team's care.
* Lead a hybrid team of software engineers, system administrators, and operations architects on highly visible projects, with regards to deploying live end-user systems and mission critical services.

Requirements:

* Very high technical competence and strong academic record. BA/BS in Computer Science preferred; MS/PhD a plus.
* Extensive relevant hands-on technical management experience of software developers, systems administrators/architects, as well as, a record of individual technical achievement.
* Mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of technically astute teams across the company.
* Strong understanding of coding principles and concepts.
* Knowledge of C, C , or Java, and Shell, Perl, or Python.
* Strong understanding of UNIX/Linux platform.
* A solid understanding of IP networking, network devices, and common topologies.

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