Senior Site Reliability & Database Engineer

Google; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team seeks a database-focused engineer to ensure reliability and performance at scale across Google's services, including Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and AppEngine.

You will design and implement robust database solutions, manage cross‑platform environments (on‑prem and GCP), and collaborate with engineers, program managers, and data scientists to meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years of SQL/PLSQL/T-SQL experience.
• 4 years on DB administration and relational development in GCP.
• 3 years designing and implementing analytics reports and dashboards.
• 2 years building automation scripts with Python or Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, implement, test, and maintain database applications.
• Manage database administration across on-prem and GCP environments.
• Adhere to software engineering standards for docs, design, and testing.
• Collaborate with leaders, engineers, PMs, and data scientists on requirements.
• Deliver on multiple concurrent projects with minimal direction.

Skills

Software development

SQL/PLSQL/T-SQL

GCP database administration

Analytics/reporting

Automation scripting (Python/Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Cloud SQL

AlloyDB

Spanner

SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Vertica

Job description

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team seeks a database-focused engineer to ensure reliability and performance at scale across Google's services, including Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and AppEngine.

You will design and implement robust database solutions, manage cross‑platform environments (on‑prem and GCP), and collaborate with engineers, program managers, and data scientists to meet business needs.