Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google Cloud is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This role combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As an SRE, you'll ensure that Google Cloud's services have reliability and uptime appropriate to customer needs, while maintaining a fast rate of improvement.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Engaging in the full lifecycle of services from design to deployment and refinement.
2. Supporting services pre-launch through system design consulting, software platform development, and capacity planning.
3. Maintaining live services by monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
4. Scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving systems to improve reliability and velocity.
5. Practicing sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms
• 5 years of software development experience
• 3 years of experience leading projects and designing distributed systems
• Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
• Knowledge of network security concepts
• A systematic problem-solving approach and effective communication skills

This role offers the opportunity to work on unique, complex challenges of scale within Google Cloud. You'll be part of a diverse team that values intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness. Google promotes self-direction on meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship for continuous learning and growth.

Join Google's Technical Infrastructure team and be part of the backbone that makes Google's product portfolio possible. Help build the next generation of Google platforms and ensure users have the best and fastest experience possible.