Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud - Google Careers

Google LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 145,000 - 148,000; Full time

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Equity

Bonus target 20%

Benefits

Job summary

Google Cloud Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the reliability of large-scale, distributed services across Google’s data pipelines. You will contribute to end-to-end reliability, capacity planning, and performance optimization, in a role that spans systems and software engineering.

The position emphasizes solving complex reliability challenges, designing scalable architectures, and collaborating across teams to support Google’s core products including

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through 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 automation and evolving systems to improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Programming languages

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Munich, Germany; Zürich, Switzerland.

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Experience effectively, efficiently, and responsibly applying AI tooling and workflows to engineering practices.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.

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 SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Google Cloud Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) owns the reliability of the end-to-end pipelines that crawl, fetch, and index the web for Google. Following the recent consolidation of our Crawl, Document, and Analysis (CDA) and Data Indexing SRE teams, we are positioned as a single organization to own the end-to-end journey. We are at the starting point of Google’s data lifecycle, making sure the world’s web data is reliably ingested and organized to power our core products from Search, to YouTube, to our key AI initiatives and products.

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. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €156000 - €159000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• 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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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.