Senior Staff 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
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their technical infrastructure organization. This role combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain Google Cloud's large-scale, distributed systems. As an SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability and uptime of both internal and external systems while focusing on optimization, infrastructure development, and automation.

The position requires a strong background in software development, distributed systems, and technical leadership. You'll work on unique scaling challenges specific to Google Cloud, applying expertise in coding, algorithms, and complex system design. The role involves the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement.

The SRE team values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment. You'll collaborate with professionals from various backgrounds, taking on meaningful projects while receiving support and mentorship for continuous growth. The team is essential to Google's infrastructure, ensuring users have the best and fastest experience possible.

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers who want to impact global-scale systems, work with cutting-edge technology, and lead technical initiatives. You'll join a team that's proud to be "engineers' engineers," focusing on building and maintaining the architecture that powers Google's extensive product portfolio. The role offers the chance to work on challenging problems while contributing to the reliability and efficiency of one of the world's largest technology companies.

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Responsibilities For Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle 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 Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Java
Python
Go
Linux
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 4 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries
  • Ability to influence without authority
  • Ability to work with ambiguity
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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