Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Responsibilities

Engage in the full life-cycle of services from design through deployment and operation. Maintain system health by monitoring availability and latency while scaling systems through automation.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and at least 8 years of software development experience. Candidates must have specific experience in site reliability engineering, distributed systems, and project leadership.

Skills

• Software Development
• Distributed Systems
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Software Design
• Architecture
• Capacity Planning
• Automation
• Service Reliability
• SLOs
• SLIs
• Incident Response
• Mentoring
• System Troubleshooting
• Algorithms
• Complexity Analysis
• Data-processing Systems

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health Insurance

About this role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent
practical experience.

* 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming
languages.

* 3 years of experience leading projects.

* 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed
systems.
* 3 years of experienceas a Site Reliability Engineer.

* 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related
technical field.

* Experience driving multi-quarter technical roadmaps and influencing
engineering direction across multiple partner teams without formal authority.
* Demonstrated experience improving service reliability (SLOs/SLIs), capacity
planning, and eliminating operational busy work through software engineering
and automation.
* Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting planet-scale
distributed storage, serving, or data-processing systems.
* Expertise in AI/ML Tools, understanding of their applicability,
functionality, and limitations.
* Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong verbal and written
communication skills and experience mentoring engineers across distributed
sites.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to
build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE
ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our
externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's
needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an
ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems,
building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE
team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale
which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding,
algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of
intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our
organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds,
experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and
take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on
meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides
the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the
Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and
maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google
platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our
engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we
can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have
the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,
experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle 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.

About Google

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