Site Reliability Manager, Data Center Networking, SRE

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead a distributed team in Canada. You will design, scale and run fault-tolerant systems, with emphasis on reliability and performance for Google services.

The role offers leadership opportunities across locations, a strong focus on incident response improvements, and collaboration with PLANET and other SRE shards. Competitive compensation includes equity, a 20% bonus target and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS or related field.
• 8+ years in software development with strong data structures and algorithms.
• At least 3 years of people management, leading projects and distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE initiatives to improve MTTD/MTTM and automate incident response.
• Oversee cross-location collaboration with Tech Leads and domain experts.
• Define and monitor Network SLOs and ensure high reliability for services.
• Partner with PLANET and SRE shards to ensure robust end-to-end repair coverage.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Code optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Git / version control

Job description

This posting is for a new vacancy. Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience managing people or teams, leading projects, and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field.

About The Job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s 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 SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.

SRE's 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

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

Canada: $216000 - $221000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Build a cohesive, mission‑first culture across locations. Scale your leadership by empowering trusted Tech Leads and domain experts, while actively prioritizing work to ensure sustained high-performance and on‑call health.
• Act as the ultimate execution owner for the team's strategic efforts. Focus on drastically improving Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mitigation (MTTM) for incidents through advanced signaling, tooling, and integrating new signals into auto‑mitigation systems.
• Set the bar for developer excellence across the SDN ecosystem. Influence the design and rollout of new network products (NPIs) to ensure they are introduced safely, deliver high reliability to GCP customers and preserve system simplicity.
• Partner closely with PLANET and sibling SRE shards to define and monitor Network Service Level Objectives (SLOs), co‑own blameless postmortems, and establish end-to-end repair coverage for network infrastructure.

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 .