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# Systems Development Engineer

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $193,200.0 - $198,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Distributed Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Technical Data Management Systems, Scripting, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F6AE6ADCEEA24774BBCB3D79C1056C56/job/

## About the Role

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a Systems Development Engineer-related occupation.

 * Alternatively, will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field, and 1 year of experience in the job offered or in a Systems Development Engineer-related occupation.
 * Position requires 1 year of experience in the following: Systems design; Systems implementation; Technical infrastructure deployment; Technical infrastructure maintenance; and Systems automation using coding or scripting.

## Description

* Participate in on-call activities and work with primary responders to fix system issues.
 * Manage the systems operating within the assigned domain.
 * Troubleshoot technical issues and evaluate technical data. Develop recommendations for systems and services within the domain.
 * Respond to tickets and bugs within team-defined service-level objectives (SLOs). Work with customers to define distributed systems requirements, testing procedures, and solutions.
 * Regional and international travel more than 10% of the time required.


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