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Tech Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. As a Tech Lead Senior SRE at Google, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google's services maintain reliability and uptime while continuously improving performance and capacity. The role involves creative engineering solutions to operations problems, with a focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.

You'll work within Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which is fundamental to Google's product portfolio. The team develops and maintains data centers and builds next-generation Google platforms. The position requires a strong background in distributed systems, software development, and technical leadership.

The role offers an opportunity to work on meaningful projects in a blame-free environment that promotes intellectual curiosity and problem-solving. Google's SRE organization brings together people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, encouraging collaboration and big-picture thinking. The company provides support and mentorship for continuous learning and growth.

As a Tech Lead, you'll be involved in the complete lifecycle of services, from design through deployment and refinement. You'll contribute to system design, develop software platforms, plan capacity, and conduct launch reviews. The role involves maintaining live services through monitoring and measurement, while implementing automation to scale systems sustainably.

This position at Google offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology and contribute to systems that impact billions of users. The role combines technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, making it ideal for engineers who want to drive technical direction while maintaining hands-on involvement in complex distributed systems.

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Responsibilities For Tech Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • 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 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 Tech Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Go
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
  • 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
  • Experience with C++/Go
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
  • Excellent problem-solving approach, with effective verbal and written communication skills