Senior SRE Engineer — Scale & Reliability Leader

Google Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Pittsburgh is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, with a mid-level background, to join our team in Pittsburgh, PA. The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and performance of Google’s public services, including design, deployment, and ongoing operation of large-scale systems.

Qualifications include a Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering with 5 years of software development and 3 years in distributed systems; 2 years of leadership experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services – from inception and design through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• 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

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Google Pittsburgh is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, with a mid-level background, to join our team in Pittsburgh, PA. The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and performance of Google’s public services, including design, deployment, and ongoing operation of large-scale systems.

Qualifications include a Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering with 5 years of software development and 3 years in distributed systems; 2 years of leadership experience.