Senior SRE - Cloud Reliability & Automation

Google Canada; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 216,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Google is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Developer in Waterloo, Ontario, to join the Unified Security and Threat Operations team. This senior role blends software development with systems engineering to keep Google Cloud services reliable and scalable.

You'll own the lifecycle of distributed systems, drive automation, capacity planning, and incident response, while fostering a blameless culture and mentorship within a diverse team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Master's degree in CS or Engineering is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in coding, algorithms, and complexity analysis at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a blameless, collaborative engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Engage across the full service lifecycle—from inception to deployment and ongoing refinement.
• Support pre-launch activities including system design consulting and capacity planning.
• Maintain live services by measuring availability and latency.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and improvements to reliability and velocity.
• Lead blameless postmortems to continuously improve operational processes.
• Eliminate repetitive work through smart automation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software development

Algorithms

Complexity analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Google is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Developer in Waterloo, Ontario, to join the Unified Security and Threat Operations team. This senior role blends software development with systems engineering to keep Google Cloud services reliable and scalable.

You'll own the lifecycle of distributed systems, drive automation, capacity planning, and incident response, while fostering a blameless culture and mentorship within a diverse team.