Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds innovative products and services used by billions of users.
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain large-scale, distributed systems that power Google Cloud's services. As a Senior SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, uptime, and performance of both internal and customer-facing systems. The role involves complex challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud, requiring expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

The position sits within Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which builds and maintains the foundation for Google's entire product portfolio. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating processes to improve reliability and efficiency. The team values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers who want to work on some of the world's largest distributed systems. You'll collaborate with talented engineers, lead technical projects, and have a direct impact on Google's infrastructure reliability. The role offers a balance of hands-on technical work and leadership responsibilities, with opportunities to mentor others and drive architectural decisions.

The SRE team culture promotes self-direction while providing support and mentorship for growth. You'll be part of an organization that brings together people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, encouraging collaboration and innovative thinking. If you're passionate about large-scale systems, automation, and building reliable infrastructure that serves billions of users, this role offers the perfect challenge.

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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

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