Senior Software Engineer, Reliability & Large-Scale Infra

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to join the Dependency Tracing Team within Platform Reliability Engineering to help minimize outages and improve cloud infrastructure reliability. The role emphasizes building scalable systems, collaborating across teams, and driving reliability across Google Cloud Platform.

As part of Google’s technical workforce, you will contribute to architecture, design decisions, and implementation details while maintaining a strong practice of testing and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or compute/storage/hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level requirements into detailed technical designs, encompassing architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in accordance with established coding standards and best practices.
• Develop and execute thorough unit, integration, and system tests to ensure code quality and functionality, including automated testing where applicable.
• Participate in code reviews to provide constructive feedback and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Document technical specifications, design decisions, and implementation details for future reference and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Testing & deployment

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Job description

Google is seeking software engineers to join the Dependency Tracing Team within Platform Reliability Engineering to help minimize outages and improve cloud infrastructure reliability. The role emphasizes building scalable systems, collaborating across teams, and driving reliability across Google Cloud Platform.

As part of Google’s technical workforce, you will contribute to architecture, design decisions, and implementation details while maintaining a strong practice of testing and