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Senior Staff Software Engineer, SRE, Core Networking

Google is a global technology company that builds innovative products and services used by billions of users.
$248,000 - $349,000
Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS
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Description For Senior Staff Software Engineer, SRE, Core Networking

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their Core Networking team. This role combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain Google Cloud's massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a technical leader, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and operating one of the largest IP Networks in existence, covering data center, metro, and wide area networks.

The position requires deep expertise in network design, distributed systems, and software development. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating processes to ensure Google's services maintain reliability and performance at scale. The role offers unique challenges in managing complex systems while collaborating with a diverse team of engineers.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to impact billions of users while working with cutting-edge technology. You'll be part of Google's Technical Infrastructure team, responsible for the architecture that powers Google's entire product portfolio. The role offers competitive compensation, including a base salary range of $248,000-$349,000, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, project leadership, and distributed systems, combined with strong problem-solving and communication skills. You'll work in an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning, while tackling some of the most complex networking challenges in the industry.

Join Google's SRE team to help build and maintain the infrastructure that powers the internet, working alongside talented engineers in a culture that values innovation, technical excellence, and personal growth.

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Responsibilities For Senior Staff Software Engineer, SRE, Core Networking

  • Serve as a networking domain expert in consulting, design and direct projects
  • Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception to refinement
  • Support services through system design consulting, developing platforms and frameworks
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

Requirements For Senior Staff Software Engineer, SRE, Core Networking

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  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 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 in network design, including routing protocols, control and management plane techniques
  • Experience in solving real world networking scale problems

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