Senior SRE: Data Indexing & ML Retrieval Systems

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

Job summary

Google Cloud's SRE team seeks a senior engineer to design and operate large-scale indexing and retrieval systems. You will lead critical projects, optimize data pipelines, and collaborate across product teams to ensure reliability, performance, and uptime.

The role emphasizes systems engineering, coding, and problem solving in a blame-free environment, with opportunities to influence infrastructure and automation at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development across languages.
• 3 years leading projects.
• 3 years designing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2 years distributed processing.

Responsibilities

• Develop next-gen Indexing Engine and Web Data Service components.
• Support data journeys for core Google products like Search, YouTube, Shopping, Lens.
• Lead projects to improve reliability of data-indexing pipelines.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Provide effective production response and thorough communications.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Project leadership

Distributed processing

Golang

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Golang

C++

Job description

Google Cloud's SRE team seeks a senior engineer to design and operate large-scale indexing and retrieval systems. You will lead critical projects, optimize data pipelines, and collaborate across product teams to ensure reliability, performance, and uptime.

The role emphasizes systems engineering, coding, and problem solving in a blame-free environment, with opportunities to influence infrastructure and automation at scale.