Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer — Scale & Automate

Google; Zürich; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Switzerland to design, build and operate massive, distributed systems within Google Cloud. You will focus on reliability, uptime and performance while driving automation and scalable infrastructure for rapid innovation.

The role requires strong coding, systems engineering, and leadership capabilities, with in-person interviews being common in the hiring process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 4 years of leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• 3 years of designing, analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design to deployment and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through system design consulting, platforms and frameworks development, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services after go-live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolving systems for reliability and velocity.
• Practice blameless postmortems and sustainable incident response.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems design

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Switzerland to design, build and operate massive, distributed systems within Google Cloud. You will focus on reliability, uptime and performance while driving automation and scalable infrastructure for rapid innovation.

The role requires strong coding, systems engineering, and leadership capabilities, with in-person interviews being common in the hiring process.