Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Scale & Availability

Google

Cambridge (MA)

On-site

USD 174,000 - 252,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Google in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available services across a broad portfolio. The role demands strong background in software development, large-scale distributed systems, and leadership to guide projects.

You will work across engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and capacity for Google’s public services. US compensation ranges from $174,000 to $252,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits, reflecting the seniority

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
Support services before they go live through system design, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
Maintain services once they are live by measuring availability and latency.
Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolving systems for reliability and velocity.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.