Staff SRE, Protected Data Systems — Lead Reliability

Google Inc.; Southwestern Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 216,000 - 221,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Waterloo, ON, Canada is seeking a Staff Software Developer, Protected Data SRE to join the Site Reliability Engineering team. This role anchors the Protected Data SRE team in Waterloo and collaborates across infrastructure stacks to improve reliability and scale.

You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and help design safe change processes while balancing performance, capacity, and regulatory deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience including product demand/supply planning, and production and inventory management.
• 3 years of experience working with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) and networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, software defined networking).
• Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience with computer networking (e.g., DNS, Load Balancing, routing) and Linux/Unix system administration.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy to reduce complexity ecosystem-wide, focusing on solution and component reuse to prevent new production risks.
• Partner with executive developing stakeholders and cross-functional programs to balance product reliability against regulatory deadlines.
• Design company-wide capabilities for change safety, distributed observability, large-scale data repair, and control plane safety.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to developers in Waterloo, fostering a culture that collaborates across infrastructure stacks (from Spanner to Google Front End (GFE)).

Skills

Unix/Linux internals

Networking knowledge

Programming languages: C/C++/Java/Pyth

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Google Waterloo, ON, Canada is seeking a Staff Software Developer, Protected Data SRE to join the Site Reliability Engineering team. This role anchors the Protected Data SRE team in Waterloo and collaborates across infrastructure stacks to improve reliability and scale.

You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and help design safe change processes while balancing performance, capacity, and regulatory deadlines.