Senior Staff SRE Engineer — Scalable Storage Systems

Google Inc.; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in New York, NY, USA is seeking a Share Staff Software Engineer for Colossus SRE to design, build, and operate massively distributed storage and SRE systems. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and performance at scale within Google Cloud.

The candidate will lead projects, mentor teammates, and drive architectural decisions while contributing hands-on coding across languages and systems defects. Collaboration across teams and a bias for action are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception to deployment.
• Support services before go-live through design, development and capacity planning.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and reliability improvements.
• Drive technical direction for integrating new services into Colossus SRE.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Leadership

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Google in New York, NY, USA is seeking a Share Staff Software Engineer for Colossus SRE to design, build, and operate massively distributed storage and SRE systems. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and performance at scale within Google Cloud.

The candidate will lead projects, mentor teammates, and drive architectural decisions while contributing hands-on coding across languages and systems defects. Collaboration across teams and a bias for action are essential.