Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Google Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cambridge is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. You will join a team responsible for reliability, latency, and capacity of Google's public services, spanning Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and more.

The role blends software and operations, with authority to fix, extend, and scale code to keep services reliable at global scale. Candidates should have a bachelor’s in CS or related field, 5 years in software development, 3 years in distributed systems, and 2

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in 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 to deployment, operation and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google Cambridge is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. You will join a team responsible for reliability, latency, and capacity of Google's public services, spanning Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and more.

The role blends software and operations, with authority to fix, extend, and scale code to keep services reliable at global scale. Candidates should have a bachelor’s in CS or related field, 5 years in software development, 3 years in distributed systems, and 2