Senior SRE Engineer – Colossus Storage Systems

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Bonus target

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, build, and operate incredibly large and distributed systems in the Colossus storage stack. You’ll apply coding, algorithms, and systems design expertise to improve reliability and performance across Google Cloud.

The role focuses on scaling, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with development and SRE leadership to ensure uptime and efficiency. This is an in-person interview role in New York.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years of leading projects.
• 3+ years of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

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.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Partner with Development and SRE leadership to design and drive efforts to increase the scalability, reliability, efficiency and security of cluster local filesystem services.
• Drive technical direction and planning of integrating new services and flows into the Colossus SRE support.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems design

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, build, and operate incredibly large and distributed systems in the Colossus storage stack. You’ll apply coding, algorithms, and systems design expertise to improve reliability and performance across Google Cloud.

The role focuses on scaling, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with development and SRE leadership to ensure uptime and efficiency. This is an in-person interview role in New York.