Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Development

Google is seeking a Senior Software Developer for their Site Reliability Development team, a crucial role that combines software and systems development to build and maintain large-scale, distributed systems. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on unique scaling challenges specific to Google's infrastructure.

The role involves managing both internally critical and externally-visible systems, ensuring optimal reliability and performance. You'll be responsible for optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and implementing automation solutions. The position requires expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

As a Site Reliability Developer, you'll be part of a team that values intellectual curiosity and problem-solving. Google's culture promotes self-direction while providing support and mentorship for growth. The team brings together diverse perspectives and backgrounds, encouraging collaboration and risk-taking in a blame-free environment.

The position offers a competitive compensation package ranging from $166,000 to $244,000, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. You'll have the opportunity to work in either Waterloo, ON, Canada or Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Key responsibilities include managing the complete lifecycle of services, from design to deployment and refinement, supporting pre-launch activities, maintaining live services, and implementing sustainable scaling solutions. You'll also participate in incident response and blameless postmortems.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. Leadership experience is required as you'll be providing technical guidance and leading projects. This role offers the chance to work on meaningful projects while contributing to Google's technical infrastructure that powers services used by millions globally.

The Technical Infrastructure team, which you'll be part of, is fundamental to Google's product portfolio, developing and maintaining data centers and building next-generation platforms. The team takes pride in solving complex engineering challenges and ensuring optimal performance of Google's networks and systems.