Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
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5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a Senior Staff 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. You'll tackle unique scale challenges specific to Google Cloud, applying expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design. Google's Technical Infrastructure team builds and maintains the architecture behind all user-facing products. The culture emphasizes diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving in a blame-free environment. You'll work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, collaborating on meaningful projects while receiving support and mentorship for professional growth. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring both strategic thinking and deep technical expertise 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

Python
Java
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 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
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills

Benefits For Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Accommodation for special needs

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