Senior SRE Engineer: Traffic Control & Cloud Reliability

Owen Thomas B Corp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Control. You will work on scalable, fault-tolerant systems, combining software and systems engineering to keep services reliable and fast.

You’ll collaborate with teams to automate and optimize capacity, performance, and resilience and mentor others in a blame-free learning culture. Role focuses on building robust infrastructure, improving existing platforms, and driving reliability improvements across

Qualifications

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

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

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Software design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Google in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Control. You will work on scalable, fault-tolerant systems, combining software and systems engineering to keep services reliable and fast.

You’ll collaborate with teams to automate and optimize capacity, performance, and resilience and mentor others in a blame-free learning culture. Role focuses on building robust infrastructure, improving existing platforms, and driving reliability improvements across