Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
About The Position
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both internally critical and externally visible—meet users' reliability and uptime needs while improving quickly. The team also monitors system capacity and performance. Software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation. In this role, you will manage complex scale challenges using expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. SRE values intellectual curiosity, problem solving, openness, collaboration, bold thinking, and a blame-free environment. The organization supports self-direction and meaningful projects, along with mentorship and opportunities to learn and grow. The role is part of Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which develops and maintains data centers and builds Google platforms, while keeping networks running to provide users with a fast and reliable experience.
Requirements
- 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.
- 4 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
- 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Support services before launch through system design consulting, development of 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 mechanisms such as automation, and advocate for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
Benefits
- 25% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
