Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds and runs large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
$161,000 - $239,000
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google Cloud combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a Senior Software Developer in SRE, you'll ensure Google Cloud's services have reliability and uptime appropriate to customer needs, while maintaining a fast rate of improvement. You'll manage complex challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud, using expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Engaging in the entire lifecycle of services, from design to deployment and refinement
  • Supporting services pre-launch through system design consulting, software platform development, and capacity planning
  • Maintaining live services by monitoring availability, latency, and system health
  • Scaling systems through automation and evolving them for improved reliability and velocity
  • Practicing sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

The role offers opportunities to work on meaningful projects in a blame-free environment that promotes self-direction, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity. You'll be part of the Technical Infrastructure team, building and maintaining the architecture behind Google's product portfolio.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred), 5+ years of software development experience, strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms, and experience with large-scale distributed systems. The position offers a competitive salary range of $161,000-$239,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle 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

Requirements For Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering

Java
Python
Go
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership

Benefits For Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Health Insurance

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