Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds and maintains large-scale computing infrastructure and services.
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the forefront of maintaining and optimizing the company's massive distributed systems infrastructure. As a Senior SRE, you'll combine software and systems engineering expertise to ensure Google Cloud's services maintain exceptional reliability and performance. The role offers unique challenges in managing scale that are specific to Google Cloud, while leveraging your skills in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design.

The position involves working with both internally critical and externally-visible systems, focusing on reliability, uptime, and continuous improvement. You'll be part of a team that values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment. The role encompasses the entire service lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and optimization.

As part of the Technical Infrastructure team, you'll be instrumental in building and maintaining Google's data centers and next-generation platforms. The team takes pride in being the "engineers' engineers," with a hands-on approach to problem-solving. Your work will directly impact millions of users by ensuring optimal performance and reliability of Google's extensive product portfolio.

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, automation, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure. The role offers significant autonomy, with opportunities to collaborate with diverse teams and tackle complex technical challenges. Google's culture promotes self-direction while providing strong support and mentorship for continued learning and growth.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, 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 Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Linux
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a 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
  • Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills

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