Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology leader that develops innovative products and services used by billions of people.
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 combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and appropriate uptime while managing complex challenges of scale. The role involves optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating processes. You'll work with a diverse team that values intellectual curiosity and problem-solving in a blame-free environment. The Technical Infrastructure team builds and maintains the architecture behind Google's products, from data centers to next-generation platforms. The position offers opportunities to work on meaningful projects with support and mentorship for continuous learning and growth. You'll be involved in the entire service lifecycle, from design to deployment and refinement, while focusing on system health, automation, and reliability improvements. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering work in distributed systems.

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Responsibilities For Senior Staff 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 Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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 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

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