Senior SRE: Privacy, Security & Safety

Google LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Zürich seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on Privacy, Security and Safety. You will design, build, and run fault-tolerant services at massive scale, ensuring reliability and data protection.

Ideal candidates lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, security, and privacy teams to raise standards for availability, performance, and secure by-default architectures.

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.
• 4 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

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.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google LLC in Zürich seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on Privacy, Security and Safety. You will design, build, and run fault-tolerant services at massive scale, ensuring reliability and data protection.

Ideal candidates lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, security, and privacy teams to raise standards for availability, performance, and secure by-default architectures.