Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Observability

Google; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for large-scale systems across Search, Ads, Gmail and more. The role combines software problem-solving with operations, enabling reliability, latency, and capacity at massive scale.

Ideal candidates will have strong experience in both systems and software, and the ability to fix, extend, and scale code while ensuring robust production environments and fast, reliable services for billions of users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering.
• 5 years of software development experience.
• 3 years designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 2 years of leading projects and providing technical leadership.

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 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 automation and changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

5 years software development

3 years distributed systems design

2 years technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for large-scale systems across Search, Ads, Gmail and more. The role combines software problem-solving with operations, enabling reliability, latency, and capacity at massive scale.

Ideal candidates will have strong experience in both systems and software, and the ability to fix, extend, and scale code while ensuring robust production environments and fast, reliable services for billions of users worldwide.