Senior SRE Engineer for GenAI & Vertex AI

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate massively distributed systems within Vertex AI and related production infrastructure in the United States. You will work on scalable architectures, improve reliability, and manage outages with a strong focus on performance and capacity planning.

The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering teams, automation, and a deep understanding of SRE principles to support both internal and external customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 2 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles managing large-scale infrastructure.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 3 years of experience in machine learning infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and sustainable system architecture and designs for products, services and enhancements.
• Defend performance of critical services in alignment with customer expectations and SLOs.
• Own and define strategy and set direction and establish roadmaps for Vertex AI services to increase reliability, efficiency and ultimately feature velocity.
• Resolve outages or service disruptions and help design solutions to ensure systems are protected from similar classes of problems in the future.
• Collaborate with development counterparts to incorporate and deliver enhancements to systems resulting in improved reliability, scalability and or performance.

Skills

Software development

Site Reliability Engineering

Distributed systems

Machine learning infra

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate massively distributed systems within Vertex AI and related production infrastructure in the United States. You will work on scalable architectures, improve reliability, and manage outages with a strong focus on performance and capacity planning.

The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering teams, automation, and a deep understanding of SRE principles to support both internal and external customers.