Senior Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds and maintains large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure powering various online services.
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their Technical Infrastructure organization. This role combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain Google Cloud's large-scale, distributed systems. As an SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability and uptime of both internal and external systems while focusing on performance optimization and automation.

The position requires strong technical leadership skills and hands-on experience with distributed systems, system administration, and networking. You'll work on complex challenges unique to Google Cloud's scale, applying expertise in coding, algorithms, and system design. The role involves improving service lifecycles, providing technical guidance, maintaining system health, and driving automation initiatives.

Google offers a collaborative environment that values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving. The Technical Infrastructure team is fundamental to Google's product portfolio, managing everything from data centers to next-generation platforms. Team members enjoy self-direction on meaningful projects while receiving support and mentorship for professional growth.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of programming experience and 3 years of distributed systems experience. You'll lead projects, contribute to system design, and work on automation to improve reliability and efficiency. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology at massive scale while being part of a team that prioritizes continuous learning and innovation.

Join Google's SRE team to tackle fascinating technical challenges, work with brilliant colleagues, and impact billions of users worldwide. The position offers the chance to shape the future of Google's infrastructure while growing your technical and leadership skills in a supportive, inclusive environment.

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Responsibilities For Senior Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
  • Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services
  • Build automation to prevent problem recurrence and automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions
  • Maintain services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
  • Lead sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation
  • Evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Manage support services through system design consulting, developing platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews

Requirements For Senior Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • Experience with administration (filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN)
  • 2 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership
  • English proficiency

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