Staff SRE & Systems Manager — Equity + 20% Bonus

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

Job summary

Google is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems on Google Cloud. You will lead critical software components and contribute to reliability, uptime, and performance at scale.

The role emphasizes incident response, automation, and cross‑team collaboration, with opportunities to mentor teammates and drive production improvements across multiple services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages: Go, Python, C++.
• 4 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, and working with administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).

Responsibilities

• Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Google's services.
• Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities for Google.
• Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non‑exceptional service conditions.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards, and to cultivate innovation and collaboration across multiple teams.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

Google is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems on Google Cloud. You will lead critical software components and contribute to reliability, uptime, and performance at scale.

The role emphasizes incident response, automation, and cross‑team collaboration, with opportunities to mentor teammates and drive production improvements across multiple services.