Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Dublin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. The role involves ensuring reliability and uptime of services while managing complex challenges at scale. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree and significant software development experience, with a strong focus on large-scale systems design and mentoring. This position offers opportunities for technical leadership and sustainable incident response practices.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with software development in programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception to operation.
• Support services before they go live through system design consulting.
• Maintain services by measuring and monitoring overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation.
• Practice sustainable incident response.

Skills

Software development

Problem-solving

Mentoring

Systematic approach

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google, Dublin, Ireland

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.

About the job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement.

On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.

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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.