Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Scalable Systems & Automation

Google Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering to own outcomes and drive complex system design in a large-scale environment. The role emphasizes leadership, decision-making, and solving ambiguous problems while influencing stakeholders across teams.

Advanced technical expertise is required, with a strong background in distributed systems, reliability engineering, and service lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
• Maintain and improve systems for reliability, latency and health.
• Scale systems through automation and evolving architectures for reliability and velocity.
• Practice blameless postmortems and incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Leadership

Problem solving

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering to own outcomes and drive complex system design in a large-scale environment. The role emphasizes leadership, decision-making, and solving ambiguous problems while influencing stakeholders across teams.

Advanced technical expertise is required, with a strong background in distributed systems, reliability engineering, and service lifecycle management.