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Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Job Description

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their mission of building and running large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role combines software and systems engineering to ensure Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and appropriate uptime while continuously improving performance. As an SRE, you'll tackle complex challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud, focusing on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and implementing automation. The position requires expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You'll work in a culture that values intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness, collaborating with diverse teams to manage critical infrastructure. The role offers opportunities to work on meaningful projects while receiving support and mentorship for continuous growth. You'll be part of the Technical Infrastructure team, responsible for maintaining Google's platforms and ensuring optimal user experience through reliable network operations.

Last updated 5 days ago

Responsibilities For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle 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 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
  • Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate tasks
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Benefits For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Medical Insurance
401k
Parental Leave
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Retirement plans
  • Parental leave support

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