Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – London

Abundant Code; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. You will apply software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems, ensuring reliability and uptime for Google Cloud services.

You’ll design, implement, and operate resilient infrastructure, automate toil, and contribute to a blameless postmortem culture. This role emphasizes coding, systems design, and collaboration across teams.

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.
• 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 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

Distributed systems design

Project leadership

Software development

Go or Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Alertmanager

Job description

Google in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. You will apply software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems, ensuring reliability and uptime for Google Cloud services.

You’ll design, implement, and operate resilient infrastructure, automate toil, and contribute to a blameless postmortem culture. This role emphasizes coding, systems design, and collaboration across teams.