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Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google is a global technology company that builds innovative products and services used by billions of people worldwide.
Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Job Description

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their mission of building and maintaining large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role combines software and systems engineering to ensure Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and optimal performance. As a Staff SRE, you'll tackle complex challenges unique to Google's scale while working on critical infrastructure that powers Google's vast product portfolio.

The position requires expertise in distributed systems, with opportunities to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure, and automate processes. You'll be part of a culture that values intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness, working alongside diverse teammates in a blame-free environment that encourages innovation and risk-taking.

The Technical Infrastructure team, which this role is part of, is fundamental to Google's operations, developing and maintaining data centers and building next-generation platforms. Your work will directly impact millions of users by ensuring systems run efficiently and reliably.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys working on complex distributed systems, has a strong background in software development, and wants to make a significant impact at scale. The role offers the perfect blend of technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and the chance to shape the future of Google's infrastructure.

The position comes with Google's comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity to work with some of the industry's brightest minds in a company known for its technical innovation and engineering excellence.

Last updated 9 days ago

Responsibilities For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

Requirements For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Linux
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 3 years of experience leading projects
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills