Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AViD, YouTube Ads

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive AViD infrastructure and production systems. You will mentor executive-level engineers and shape technical direction across Ads and AViD, owning reliability and uptime targets for large-scale services.

Responsibilities include building AI-powered automation, leading cross-SRE AI Ops programs, optimizing systems, and collaborating across teams to align with business goals in a fast-paced environment.

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 (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience leading technical strategy across multiple teams and influencing engineering direction.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliable uptime for Google Ads AViD services with high availability and performance.
• Build AI-powered automation and agentic workflows for production operations.
• Lead cross-SRE AI Ops programs to adopt AI/ML tooling for incident response and to reduce toil.
• Focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating manual work through automation and AI.
• Understand system relationships and apply diverse tools and AI capabilities to solve broad problems.

Skills

8+ years software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Job description

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Minimum 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 (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience collaborating effectively across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.
• Experience leading technical strategy and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams.
• Experience leading cross-organizational technical programs or initiatives at scale.
• Experience with agentic systems and using AI to support production operations, including familiarity with LLM-based tooling, AI-driven automation, or intelligent incident response systems.
• Ability to understand complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives and quickly respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.

About The Job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.

SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

In this role, you will develop, design, and drive technical engineering projects and decisions for Apps, Video and Display (AViD) infrastructure and production systems. You will mentor and lead other executive level engineers within AViD SRE and across Ads to achieve our aligned mission.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Ensure that Google Ads services within the AViD ecosystem have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs with a fast rate of improvement, while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance.
• Build creative engineering solutions to operations and infrastructure problems, including AI-powered automation and agentic workflows for production operations.
• Lead and contribute to the cross-SRE AI Ops program, driving the strategic adoption of AI/ML tools to improve incident response, reduce toil, and enhance service reliability across Ads SRE.
• Focus on optimizing existing systems, build infrastructure, and eliminate work through automation and AI-driven operational improvements.
• Determine how our systems relate to each other and use a breadth of tools and approaches — including emerging AI capabilities — to solve a broad spectrum of problems.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .