Staff Software Developer, Site Reliability Development

Google Inc.; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 204,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Ontario seeks a Staff Software Developer in Site Reliability Development. This role involves improving service lifecycle from inception to operation, ensuring reliability and operational excellence for cloud services. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and substantial experience in software development and distributed systems. With a focus on problem-solving, automation, and teamwork, this position offers a competitive salary range between CAD 204,000-209,000, plus bonuses and benefits.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from inception to operation.
• Support services before they go live through system design consulting.
• Maintain services once live by measuring and monitoring availability.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Software development

Problem solving

Stakeholder influencing

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Staff Software Developer, Site Reliability Development

Google Waterloo, ON, Canada

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master\'s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

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 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 SREs 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 Cloud, 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.

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.

The Canada base salary range for this full-time position is CAD 204,000-209,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in Canada role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.

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