Staff SRE - Distributed Cloud: Scale Reliability

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud in London. The role focuses on building reliable, scalable distributed systems and leading critical projects in a fast-paced environment.

You will design, deploy and optimize large-scale services, develop automation tooling and monitoring strategies, and mentor teams while upholding Google’s reliability standards.

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

Bachelor's degree

8 years experience

3 years leading projects

3 years distributed systems

Linux/UNIX internals

Networking (TCP/IP)

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Alertmanager

Golang

Python

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud in London. The role focuses on building reliable, scalable distributed systems and leading critical projects in a fast-paced environment.

You will design, deploy and optimize large-scale services, develop automation tooling and monitoring strategies, and mentor teams while upholding Google’s reliability standards.