Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the forefront of maintaining and optimizing large-scale, distributed systems that power Google Cloud's services. This senior role combines software and systems engineering to ensure reliability, appropriate uptime, and continuous improvement of both internal and external systems. As an SRE, you'll tackle unique scaling challenges while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, and system design.

The position offers the opportunity to work with Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which is fundamental to Google's entire product portfolio. You'll be part of a diverse and collaborative culture that encourages intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and risk-taking in a blame-free environment. The role involves the complete lifecycle of services, from design and deployment to operation and refinement.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in distributed systems, software development, and technical leadership. You'll be responsible for system design consulting, capacity planning, launch reviews, and implementing automation to scale systems sustainably. The role offers significant growth opportunities and the chance to work on some of the most complex technical challenges in the industry.

Working at Google means joining a company committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with comprehensive benefits and a culture that promotes self-direction while providing necessary support and mentorship. This role is perfect for engineers who are passionate about reliability, scalability, and building robust systems that serve millions of users globally.

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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
  • 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Medical Insurance
401k
Parental Leave
Education Budget
  • Comprehensive medical insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Parental leave benefits
  • Education and development opportunities

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