Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AViD, YouTube Ads

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

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer for AViD (YouTube Ads) to lead reliability across Apps, Video and Display infrastructure. The role involves mentoring executive-level engineers and driving cross-team SRE initiatives.

The successful candidate will shape AI-powered automation, incident response improvements, capacity planning and scalable system design, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and strategic thinking.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Ensure Google Ads services within AViD have reliability and uptime with fast improvement.
• Build AI-powered automation and agentic workflows for production operations.
• Lead the cross-SRE AI Ops program to adopt AI/ML tools for incident response and reliability.
• Focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.
• Determine how systems relate and use broad tools including emerging AI capabilities to solve problems.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical strategy leadership

Cross-organizational programs

Agentic AI / AI Ops

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AViD, YouTube Ads

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

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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• 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.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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