Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds and maintains large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure powering their product portfolio.
$150,000 - $250,000
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. As a Senior SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google Cloud's services maintain high reliability and performance standards. The role combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems.

You'll work with a diverse team of engineers to tackle complex challenges unique to Google's scale. The position offers opportunities to design, analyze, and troubleshoot distributed systems while focusing on optimization, infrastructure development, and automation. SRE's culture promotes intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness in a blame-free environment.

The Technical Infrastructure team, which you'll be part of, is fundamental to Google's operations, developing and maintaining data centers and building next-generation platforms. You'll contribute to keeping networks running optimally and ensuring users have the best possible experience.

This role is perfect for engineers who are passionate about large-scale systems, have strong problem-solving abilities, and want to work with cutting-edge technology. You'll have the chance to grow professionally through mentorship and collaboration with experienced engineers while working on meaningful projects that impact millions of users.

The position offers the opportunity to work with Google's world-class infrastructure, contribute to critical systems, and be part of a team that values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and innovation. You'll be involved in the entire service lifecycle, from design to deployment and optimization, making a significant impact on Google's infrastructure reliability and performance.

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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

Python
Go
Java
Kubernetes
Linux
  • 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
  • English proficiency

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