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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

Description For Tech Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain large-scale distributed systems. As a Tech Lead Senior SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google's services maintain appropriate reliability and performance while driving continuous improvement. The role involves creative engineering solutions to operations problems, with a focus on optimizing systems, building infrastructure, and 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, builds next-generation platforms, and ensures networks run optimally for the best user experience. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, strong programming skills, and leadership ability.

The role offers an opportunity to work on some of the world's largest computing systems while promoting a culture of intellectual curiosity and blameless problem-solving. Google emphasizes self-direction on meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship for growth. You'll be part of an organization that brings together diverse perspectives and backgrounds, encouraging collaboration and innovative thinking in a blame-free environment.

As a Tech Lead, you'll guide projects and provide technical leadership while working hands-on with complex distributed systems. The position involves both strategic planning and practical implementation, from system design to production maintenance. You'll need to balance technical depth with leadership skills, guiding teams while maintaining technical excellence.

This role is ideal for experienced engineers who are passionate about large-scale systems, automation, and technical leadership. You'll have the opportunity to shape how Google's critical infrastructure evolves while working with cutting-edge technology and talented engineers from diverse backgrounds.

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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

Python
Linux
  • 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

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