Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google is a global technology company that builds and maintains technical infrastructure powering their product portfolio through data centers and platforms.
$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 Cloud

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google Cloud combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As an SRE, you'll ensure Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and appropriate uptime while monitoring system capacity and performance. The role focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automation.

The position offers unique challenges of scale specific to Google Cloud, requiring expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You'll be part of a diverse culture that values intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness. The organization brings together people with varied backgrounds and perspectives, encouraging collaboration and risk-taking in a blame-free environment.

Working in the Technical Infrastructure team, you'll be part of the backbone that keeps Google's products running. The team develops and maintains data centers, builds next-generation Google platforms, and ensures networks operate at peak performance. This role combines hands-on engineering with systems architecture, offering opportunities to design, implement, and maintain critical infrastructure at a global scale.

The position offers professional growth through self-directed meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship. You'll work with cutting-edge technology, solve complex distributed systems challenges, and contribute to Google Cloud's reliability and performance improvements. The role requires both technical expertise and strong communication skills, as you'll collaborate with various teams to ensure service reliability.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

  • 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, Google Cloud

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 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 with effective verbal and written communication skills

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Parental Leave
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Accommodation for special needs
  • Global work environment

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