Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability

Google; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 182,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Developer to help design, build, and operate large-scale, fault-tolerant systems within Google Cloud. You will apply coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design expertise to optimize reliability and performance across critical services.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and a culture of curiosity and risk-taking in a blame-free environment, with emphasis on scalable engineering and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• 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 system design, development of software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolving systems to improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

About The Job

Site Reliability Development combines software and systems development to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Site Reliability Development ensures that Google Cloud's services - both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally Site Reliability Developers will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the Site Reliability Development team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. Site Reliability Developments culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We’re proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $182000 - $186000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.