Staff SRE Engineer, Cloud Reliability & Scale

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering on Google Distributed Cloud. This role focuses on building and running large-scale, fault-tolerant systems, with emphasis on reliability and performance across Google Cloud services.

You will lead initiatives, implement automation, and contribute to global infrastructure, while collaborating across teams to improve resilience and scalability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more languages.
• 3+ years of project leadership experience.
• 3+ years of designing and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the entire lifecycle of services from design to deployment and refinement.
• Support services pre- and post-launch with design, capacity planning and reviews.
• Monitor availability, latency and system health of live services.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and reliability improvements.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Alertmanager

Linux networking

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering on Google Distributed Cloud. This role focuses on building and running large-scale, fault-tolerant systems, with emphasis on reliability and performance across Google Cloud services.

You will lead initiatives, implement automation, and contribute to global infrastructure, while collaborating across teams to improve resilience and scalability.