[JOB] Engineering Opportunities at Google

Sun May 28 01:11:38 BST 2006

Recently received this... sadly, even if I met the qualifications for either
position, I've just been hired by another lovely search engine (PLUG:
Blaze Search Trails at Trexy.com!) so wouldn't be available anyway.

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:34:10 -0700
From: Bonnie O'Brien <obrienb [at] google.com>
To: earle [at] downlode.org
Subject: Engineering Opportunities at Google

Hi  Earle,   
My name is Bonnie O'Brien and I am a Recruiter for the Google.com
Engineering Group at Google.  This is the most dynamic, challenging and fun
group at Google.  The Google.com Engineering group is responsible for the
infrastructure supporting Google.com from start to finish (and it is
different from the Operations group).

I wanted to ping you to see if you may be interested in opportunities in
Google.   We are constantly seeking Extraordinary developers and UNIX
(Linux) experts such as yourself to join our exciting team and growing
organization.   We have positions open in the USA in Mountain View (CA),
Santa Monica (CA), New York (NY), and Kirkland (WA) as well as Dublin
(Ireland), Zurich (Switzerland) and Bangalore, India and we could relocate
you to any of these locations of your choice.  I am enclosing job
descriptions of two positions that I feel may be a great match for you.

If you feel that either of these positions is something that may be of
interest to you, please send me an email so we can schedule a time for me to
call you to speak with you to discuss more details.  I hope you are not
bothered by my networking attempt. If you are not interested or available,
but would like to forward my name and contact information to your friends or
colleagues, I would be most delighted. 

Thanks Earle and hope to hear from you soon. 

Cheers! 

Unix System & Applications Administrator, Google.com 

Are you: 

.... a seasoned Unix jockey, database wizard, performance specialist,
networking guru, and code slinger all rolled into one? 

.... looking for the next cool problem to solve, in a fast-paced and
engineering-driven environment? 

.... into writing scripts which perform practically the entire job you once
held earlier in your career? 

.... entertained in your off hours by taking things apart just to see how
they work? Are you successful putting them back together when you're done? 

.... excited by the idea of making Google even faster, more reliable, more
available,  more - well, Googly? 

If you answered "Yes" to more than three of the above questions, you may be
our kind of sysadmin! Keep reading. 

Google.com team members are involved in every facet of Google's production
site.  From design issues to troubleshooting, from performance analysis to
capacity planning, from DNS to networking to application [mis]behavior,
Google.com engineers are ultimately responsible for making sure that Google
always works.  We take that  responsibility very very seriously, but if you
think you've got what it takes then we're eager to talk with you.

Working in the Google.com team, you will wear many hats: first responder,
performance analyst, service architect, system/database administrator,
capacity planner, tools developer, monitoring expert, and technical
evangelist, for Google's entire production site

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In this role you will need: 

.Expertise in Unix system adminstration, including configuration,
troubleshooting, and automation; 

.Fluency in at least one scripting/coding language; 

.Experience running high-traffic web services, including requirements &
capacity analysis, service configuration, monitoring & troubleshooting, and
change management;

.Strong understanding of IP networking, including  familiarity with the
functionality, operating, and failure modes of common networking devices,
and the ability to analyze network  behavior, performance and application
issues using standard tools like tcpdump. 

Qualifications: 

.3 - 5 years experience with Unix systems administration (5-15 years for Sr.
position) 

.Solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl or Python. 

.Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience. 

.Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment. 

.Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests. 

.Tack-sharp analytical abilities. 

.A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. 

.Fluent written communication and unusual verbal agility are strong assets. 

.SQL experience a plus, MySQL a plusplus. 

.Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus. 

.BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience. 

Senior Software Engineer, Google.com 

Are you part ace coder, part adrenaline junkie? Do you have a knack for
seeing a problem and immediately discerning the likely solution? Maybe
you've been coding for years, are bored with the old
design-build-review-test-ship-repeat routine, and yearn for some
faster-paced challenges? Or perhaps you're a seasoned software engineer who
is also a genius at jockeying networks and administering UNIX clusters. 

We're looking for top-notch thrill-seeking software engineers to join the
Google.com engineering team. Google.com engineers are in the thick of
everything involved with keeping Google running, from code-level
troubleshooting of service anomalies to safeguarding the availability of our
most popular  services; from monitoring and response to building new
automation infrastructure to balancing the desire for change management with
the need for stability.  All team members must have strong analytical and
troubleshooting skills, fluency in coding, good communication skills, and
most of all enthusiasm for tackling the complex problems of scale which are
uniquely Google. We tackle challenging, novel situations every day, and work
with just about every other engineering and operations team at Google in the
process.

In this role you will need: 

.Expertise in coding, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed
systems. 

.Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment. 

.Strong understanding of IP networking, including the ability to analyze
network  behavior, performance and application issues using standard tools
like tcpdump.

Qualifications: 

.6-15+ years experience for Senior Software Engineer position, or 3-8 years
experience for Software Engineer position 

.3+ years developing web-based applications. 

.Expertise in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis. 

.Fluency in one or more of: C, C++, Java. 

.Fluency in one of more of: Shell, PHP, Perl or Python. 