About Wing:
Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing’s fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on two continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.
About the Role:
Wing is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Wing SRE team. This role will be based in Palo Alto, California. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems written in C++ and run on Google internal infrastructure. SRE ensures that Wing's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive the adoption and growth of SRE practices and promote a robust system reliability culture across all of Wing.
- Provide engineering mentorship and professional growth across all of Wing's engineering organization, with an emphasis on scalable activities such as many-to-one training.
- Provide consultation and advice to engineering teams. both proactively and on request. This includes pre-implementation design reviews, launch reviews and retrospective analysis of production system failures for systems built in C++ on both Borg and GCP.
- Proactively identify, plan and execute activities that improve Wing's reliability, efficiency and/or consistency, often in collaboration with Wing's other engineering teams.
- Become a member of one of Wing's oncall rotations and help improve its oncall practices.
What You’ll Need:
- 8+ years of experience with Google SRE or similar role, with at least 3 years of recent experience with Borg, Pod or Boq based services.
- Experience providing advice and consulting to other teams, either formally or informally.
- Bachelor's degree in a directly related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Three years of recent experience with two or more of: Borg, Boq, Spanner, GCP.
- 5 years experience with one or more system programming languages such as C++ (preferred), C, Rust or Golang.
- Ability to work independently.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is the salary range below + bonus + equity + benefits. Wing’s salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wing's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
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What We Do
Wing is reshaping the future of delivery. We are an on-demand drone delivery service that can deliver food, medicine or other items within minutes. We’ve also developed an unmanned traffic management platform to safely route drones through the sky. Our service is faster, safer and produces far less pollution than traditional delivery.
