Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
About The Position
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) treats operations as a software problem. The team progresses, protects, and provides for the software and systems behind Google’s public services, focusing on availability, latency, performance, and capacity. SRE engineers keep revenue-critical systems running and have the authority to fix, extend, and scale code to improve their resilience. The role brings together systems and software engineering, working across everything from low-level infrastructure details to service capacity at a global scale. The Technical Infrastructure team develops and maintains data centers, networks, and Google platforms that support its products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the full lifecycle of services, from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Support services before launch through system design consulting, software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
- Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by advocating changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
Benefits
- Benefits are offered; specific benefits are not listed in the posting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
