Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering, GCP Identity

Google; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 280,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Poland seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to join a team that builds and runs large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems within Google Cloud.

The role focuses on reliability, uptime, and performance, applying software and systems engineering to scale operations. You’ll work with modern cloud tech, data structures, and automation to improve service quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 2 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Java, Python, or Go and knowledge of algorithms and data structures or Unix/Linux systems internals.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code and provide feedback on best practices and quality.
• Contribute to documentation and educational content, updating as product changes.
• Triage issues and debug across hardware, network, or services.
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to choose technologies.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Python

Go

Algorithms & data structures

Unix/Linux systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Infrastructure as code

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience coding in one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go.
• Experience with algorithms and data structures or Unix/Linux systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) and administration.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automation.
• Hands-on experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps engineer.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML)
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies (e.g., GCP) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).

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. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. 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. SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Poland: zł280000 - zł287000 (PLN) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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