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Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds innovative products and services used by billions of users.
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Job Description

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their mission of building and maintaining large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role combines software and systems engineering expertise to ensure Google Cloud's services maintain optimal reliability and performance.

As an SRE at Google, you'll work on complex challenges unique to Google's scale, focusing on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and implementing automation. The role requires expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You'll be part of a culture that values intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness.

The Technical Infrastructure team is fundamental to Google's product portfolio, developing and maintaining data centers and building next-generation platforms. Your responsibilities will span the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement. You'll be involved in system design consulting, capacity planning, launch reviews, and maintaining service health through monitoring and automation.

This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology at massive scale, collaborate with talented engineers, and directly impact billions of users. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring both strategic thinking and practical implementation skills.

Google offers a collaborative environment that promotes self-direction while providing support and mentorship for growth. You'll be part of a diverse team that brings together people with various backgrounds and perspectives, working in a blame-free environment that encourages innovation and risk-taking.

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Responsibilities For Senior 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 Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Linux
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
  • 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 Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Medical Insurance
401k
Parental Leave
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Retirement plans
  • Parental leave

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