Senior SRE: AI-Driven, Resilient Data Pipelines

Google; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google is hiring for a Site Reliability Engineer to support AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK stack. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and data-pipeline resilience in a large-scale ads infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive AI-first tooling, and participate in blameless postmortems while maintaining a high standard of production readiness and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years leading projects.
• 3 years designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Experience with large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical goal, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy for AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK production stack.
• Partner with dev leadership to lead system design reviews, drive backend simplification and resource isolation, and ensure production readiness for flagship Ads launches.
• Architect and lead the implementation of critical infrastructure projects, including data-pipeline resilience, automated rollback/restart platforms, and consolidated observability.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team, and push for software engineering excellence, AI-first tooling and SRE best practices; drive the operational maturity handover that helps partner dev teams mature.
• Lead the response to complex production incidents, correlate production signals with customer and business impact, and drive high-impact post-incident architectural improvements and blameless postmortems and participate in a healthy tier 2 oncall rotation for core shared SAGE/SPARK infrastructure.

Skills

8 years software development

3 years leading projects

3 years distributed systems design/trb

Large-scale data processing

AI-assisted tooling / reliability

Cross-functional architectural impact

Collaboration with development teams

Blameless postmortems / SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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Job description

Google is hiring for a Site Reliability Engineer to support AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK stack. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and data-pipeline resilience in a large-scale ads infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive AI-first tooling, and participate in blameless postmortems while maintaining a high standard of production readiness and collaboration with cross-functional teams.