Site Reliability Engineer, Video Processing SRE

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability, performance, and efficiency of Google's vast array of public services. This role specifically focuses on the video processing infrastructure that powers YouTube's video delivery system. As an SRE in the Video Processing team, you'll work at the intersection of operations and software engineering, treating operations challenges as software problems.

The position offers a unique opportunity to work on planet-spanning systems that serve billions of users. You'll be handling everything from low-level disk driver I/O scheduling to continental-level service capacity planning. The role requires deep technical knowledge across the full stack and the ability to design and implement solutions that scale globally.

The Video Processing SRE team is crucial to YouTube's infrastructure, ensuring videos are processed, uploaded, and transcoded efficiently and reliably. You'll be working with cutting-edge technology and contributing to next-generation video processing pipelines that impact billions of users worldwide.

This is an ideal position for someone who enjoys working on complex distributed systems, has a passion for reliability and performance optimization, and wants to make a significant impact on one of the world's largest video platforms. You'll collaborate with various infrastructure teams, tackle challenging technical problems, and help shape the future of video processing at YouTube.

Working at Google's Zürich office, you'll be part of a global team that's pushing the boundaries of what's possible in video processing and distribution at scale. The role offers continuous learning opportunities and the chance to work with some of the most sophisticated infrastructure systems in the industry.