Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AQI Data SRE

Google•Pittsburgh, PA

15h•$207,000 - $300,000

About The Position

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will help keep Google Cloud and Ads systems reliable, available, performant, and appropriately scaled. The role combines software and systems engineering, with a focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating manual work through automation. It involves applying coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design to address the scale and reliability challenges of Google Cloud. Within Ads Quality Infrastructure (AQI) Data SRE, the role supports reliable data processing for Search Ads and Ads on Google Experiences (SAGE/SPARK). The team owns core infrastructure behind the Google Ads business across Google-owned surfaces, including Google Search, Google Maps, and Feed Ads. AQI SRE is responsible for serving, data extraction and copy, and the platforms that keep these systems fast and healthy, partnering with development teams to build and support the infrastructure. The position defines technical direction and reliability strategy across the SAGE/SPARK production stack, leads infrastructure projects, and works with development leadership on system design and production readiness. It also includes mentoring engineers, improving operational maturity, responding to complex production incidents, and participating in a tier 2 on-call rotation for core shared SAGE/SPARK infrastructure. The stated US pay range is $207,000–$300,000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

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.
3 years of experience leading projects.
3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Experience with large-scale data processing.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Experience in distributed, real-time systems and high-throughput data pipelines.
Knowledge or experience with agentic flows/development and AI-assisted production/reliability tooling.
Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of building trusted, blameless partnerships with development teams.
Excellent practical large-systems design skills, with experience building scalable, self-service reliability and observability.
Proven track record of driving cross-functional architectural alignment and influencing technical decisions across large engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

Define the technical goal, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy for AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK production stack.
Partner with development leadership to lead system design reviews, drive backend simplification and resource isolation, and ensure production readiness for flagship Ads launches.
Architect and lead critical infrastructure projects, including data-pipeline resilience, automated rollback/restart platforms, and consolidated observability.
Mentor and grow engineers, promote software engineering excellence, AI-first tooling, and SRE best practices, and drive the operational maturity handover that helps partner development teams mature.
Lead responses to complex production incidents, correlate production signals with customer and business impact, and drive high-impact post-incident architectural improvements and blameless postmortems.
Participate in a healthy tier 2 on-call rotation for core shared SAGE/SPARK infrastructure.