Site Reliability Engineer, Video Processing SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google is a unique approach that treats operations as a software problem. As an SRE focusing on Video Processing, you'll be responsible for maintaining and improving critical systems that power Google's public services, particularly YouTube's video processing infrastructure. The role combines traditional operations with software engineering, giving you full authority to modify and scale code for better reliability.

You'll work on systems ranging from planet-spanning databases to real-time scalable data warehousing, managing services that impact billions of users worldwide. The position requires deep technical knowledge across the full stack, from disk I/O scheduling to continental-level service capacity planning.

This is an opportunity to join Google's SRE team in Zürich, where you'll be part of a group that ensures the reliability, performance, and efficiency of Google's video processing systems. You'll be working with cutting-edge technology and solving complex challenges at massive scale, while contributing to YouTube's next-generation video processing pipeline.

The role offers the unique challenge of maintaining high-availability systems while also driving technical innovations. You'll collaborate with various infrastructure teams, apply software engineering principles to operations tasks, and help shape the future of Google's video processing capabilities. This position is perfect for those who enjoy working at the intersection of software development and systems engineering, with a focus on reliability and scalability.