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Preferred qualifications: + Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. ## Description + Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services - from inception and design through to deployment, operation, and refinement. + Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews. + Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. + Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. + Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) . 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