Reliability Software Engineer, Public Sector Cloud

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks a Software Engineer for reliability on critical public sector projects in the Reston area. You will own end-to-end service life-cycle for air-gapped solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and scalable operations in government environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, large-scale design, and governance with a focus on secure, audited platforms. A Top Secret/SCI clearance and US citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 1 year of software development with one or more programming languages.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and willingness to polygraph required.

Responsibilities

• Own the life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception to deployment and refinement.
• Support services pre-live via design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Monitor availability, latency, and health to maintain live services.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and architectural improvements.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and practice incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Software development

System reliability

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Google Public Sector seeks a Software Engineer for reliability on critical public sector projects in the Reston area. You will own end-to-end service life-cycle for air-gapped solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and scalable operations in government environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, large-scale design, and governance with a focus on secure, audited platforms. A Top Secret/SCI clearance and US citizenship are required.