Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google is a global technology company that builds and maintains large-scale technical infrastructure powering their product portfolio.
Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google Cloud's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the forefront of building and maintaining large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a Staff Software Engineer in SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability and uptime of Google Cloud's critical services while tackling unique scaling challenges. The role combines software and systems engineering expertise to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure, and automate processes.

The position offers an opportunity to work with Google's Technical Infrastructure team, where you'll contribute to developing and maintaining data centers and building next-generation Google platforms. You'll be part of a diverse and intellectually curious team that values problem-solving and openness, working in a blame-free environment that encourages collaboration and risk-taking.

Your work will directly impact Google Cloud's service reliability, performance, and capacity management. You'll be involved in the complete service lifecycle, from design consultation to deployment and optimization. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, strong coding abilities, and excellent problem-solving skills. You'll work alongside talented engineers in an environment that promotes self-direction while providing support and mentorship for continuous learning and growth.

As part of Google's engineering team, you'll help build the architecture that powers Google's vast product portfolio, ensuring users have the best and fastest experience possible. The role offers a unique blend of technical challenges, leadership opportunities, and the chance to work on systems at a scale few other companies can match.

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

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
  • 3 years of experience leading projects and 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, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills

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

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

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