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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

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Tech Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Technical Infrastructure organization. This role combines software and systems engineering to build and maintain large-scale, distributed systems that power Google's services. The position requires expertise in distributed systems design, troubleshooting, and automation.

As an SRE Tech Lead, you'll be responsible for ensuring Google's services maintain appropriate reliability and performance while driving continuous improvement. You'll work on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and creating automation solutions. The role involves both technical leadership and hands-on engineering work.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in distributed systems, software development, and system design, along with proven leadership experience. You'll collaborate with teams across Google to design and implement solutions that scale efficiently and maintain high reliability standards.

Google's Technical Infrastructure team is fundamental to the company's operations, building and maintaining the architecture that supports all of Google's products. The team takes pride in solving complex engineering challenges and building robust, scalable systems.

This role offers the opportunity to work on some of the world's largest distributed systems, contribute to Google's engineering culture, and lead technical initiatives that impact billions of users. You'll be part of a team that values intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and open collaboration, while working in an environment that promotes self-direction and continuous learning.

The position includes comprehensive benefits and the chance to work with cutting-edge technology while solving challenging technical problems at scale. Join Google's SRE team to help build and maintain the infrastructure that powers the internet's most popular services.

Last updated 2 months ago

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
  • Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
  • Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with C++/Python
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
  • Excellent problem-solving approach, with effective verbal and written communication skills

Benefits For Tech Lead, Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Medical Insurance
401k
Parental Leave
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Equal employment opportunity
  • Inclusive work environment

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