Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain large-scale, distributed systems. As an SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google's services maintain appropriate reliability and uptime while focusing on performance and capacity. The role involves creative engineering solutions to operations problems, with much of the development work centered on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating operations. SREs use a wide variety of tools and approaches to solve complex problems, implementing practices such as limiting operational work time, conducting blameless postmortems, and proactively identifying potential outages. The culture emphasizes intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness, bringing together diverse perspectives in a blame-free environment. This entry-level position offers opportunities for self-direction on meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship for growth. The compensation package includes a competitive base salary range of $118,000-$170,000, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The role requires strong technical skills in software development, system design, and problem-solving, with opportunities to work on some of the world's largest distributed systems.