Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google is a global technology company that builds and maintains large-scale, distributed systems and infrastructure.
$189,000 - $284,000
Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google Cloud'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 expertise to ensure Google Cloud's services maintain reliability and uptime while continuously improving.

As a Staff SRE, you'll tackle complex challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud, applying your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You'll be responsible for the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement. The role involves system design consulting, developing software platforms, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

The position offers competitive compensation ($189,000-$284,000 + bonus + equity + benefits) and the opportunity to work with a diverse team of intellectually curious problem-solvers. You'll contribute to maintaining Google's vast technical infrastructure, ensuring users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of experience with data structures and algorithms, strong software development skills, and proven leadership experience in distributed systems. You'll work in a blame-free environment that encourages collaboration, big thinking, and risk-taking, with ample support and mentorship for continued learning and growth.

Join Google's SRE team to help shape the future of cloud infrastructure while working on meaningful projects that impact billions of users. Your work will directly contribute to the reliability and performance of Google Cloud's critical systems, making you an essential part of Google's engineering excellence.

Last updated 16 days ago

Responsibilities For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

  • 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, Google Cloud

Linux
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
  • 3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)

Benefits For Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401k
Equity
  • Competitive base salary
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits package

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