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.
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 seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic organization that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role is crucial in ensuring Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and uptime while continuously improving performance.

As an SRE, you'll be at the forefront of managing complex challenges unique to Google Cloud's scale. Your responsibilities will span the entire service lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and creating automation solutions to eliminate manual work.

The role requires a strong background in software development, distributed systems, and technical leadership. You'll be responsible for system design consulting, capacity planning, and maintaining service health through monitoring and optimization. The position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology while solving complex problems at massive scale.

Google's SRE culture emphasizes diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment. The team brings together people with varied backgrounds and perspectives, encouraging collaboration and innovation. You'll have the freedom to work on meaningful projects while receiving the support and mentorship needed for professional growth.

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. This role offers the unique opportunity to work with some of the world's most complex distributed systems while contributing to the reliability and performance of Google's global infrastructure.

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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
Java
Go
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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