Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. This role combines software and systems engineering to ensure Google's services maintain optimal reliability and performance.
As an SRE, you'll be part of a discipline that focuses on applying software engineering principles to operations problems. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining efficient large-scale systems while ensuring appropriate reliability and uptime for both internal and external services. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and creating automation solutions to eliminate manual work.
The position offers exposure to a wide range of tools and approaches to solve complex operational problems. You'll participate in practices such as limiting operational work time, conducting blameless postmortems, and proactively identifying potential outages. The role emphasizes intellectual curiosity and problem-solving in a blame-free environment.
Google's SRE team brings together people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, encouraging collaboration and innovative thinking. The culture promotes self-direction while providing support and mentorship for professional growth. You'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that directly impact Google's infrastructure and services.
The compensation package includes a competitive base salary range of $118,000-$170,000, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. This role is perfect for someone with a strong foundation in computer science who is passionate about building reliable, scalable systems and wants to work at the intersection of software development and systems engineering.
The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, programming experience, and strong understanding of data structures and algorithms. You'll be joining a team that literally wrote the book on Site Reliability Engineering, and will have the opportunity to contribute to Google's world-class infrastructure.