Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Scale & Reliability Leader

Google LLC; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

15% bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. You will join a mission to keep Google’s public services highly available, scalable, and fast, by treating operations as a software problem and owning production systems end-to-end.

The role blends systems and software skills, requires leadership, and offers a path to impact billions of users through reliable infrastructure, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

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.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.

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 and capacity planning.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and drive reliability and velocity with blameless postmortems.

Skills

Software development experience

Distributed systems design

Project leadership

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering. You will join a mission to keep Google’s public services highly available, scalable, and fast, by treating operations as a software problem and owning production systems end-to-end.

The role blends systems and software skills, requires leadership, and offers a path to impact billions of users through reliable infrastructure, performance tuning, and capacity planning.