Senior Staff SRE Engineer – Storage Systems

Google Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus program

Health benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Colossus Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in New York, NY. This role blends software and systems engineering to build and run massive distributed storage and filesystem services with reliability and performance as top priorities.

You will lead cross‑functional projects, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of Colossus SRE, collaborating with teams across Google Cloud and storage platforms to meet demanding scalability goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development 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 and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Partner with Development and SRE leadership to design and drive efforts to increase the scalability, reliability, efficiency and security of cluster local filesystem services.
• Drive technical direction and planning of integrating new services and flows into the Colossus SRE support.

Skills

8 years software development

Distributed systems design

Project leadership

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Colossus Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in New York, NY. This role blends software and systems engineering to build and run massive distributed storage and filesystem services with reliability and performance as top priorities.

You will lead cross‑functional projects, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of Colossus SRE, collaborating with teams across Google Cloud and storage platforms to meet demanding scalability goals.