Senior SRE Engineer: Scale, Reliability & Automation

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Sunnyvale to design, build, and operate massively distributed systems ensuring reliability and scalability. You will lead initiatives, optimize performance, and automate operations across critical services.

The role emphasizes software engineering, systems design, and fault-tolerant architectures, with a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. In-person interviews are typically part of the process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 4 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• 3 years of experience in 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.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Sunnyvale to design, build, and operate massively distributed systems ensuring reliability and scalability. You will lead initiatives, optimize performance, and automate operations across critical services.

The role emphasizes software engineering, systems design, and fault-tolerant architectures, with a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. In-person interviews are typically part of the process.