Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering

Google; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure availability, latency, and capacity across Google’s public services. You will write and review code, diagnose issues, and help scale complex systems while collaborating with software and systems teams.

You bring 2+ years in software development and distributed systems experience, plus a CS/Engineering degree. The role offers substantial impact and a pathway to advanced reliability engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content to product updates.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing impact on hardware, network, or service operations.
• Participate in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Distributed systems design

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

About The Job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. Our mission is to progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind all of Google’s public services - Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, to name just a few - with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.

This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry. Like traditional operations groups, we keep important, revenue-critical systems up and running despite hurricanes, bandwidth outages, and configuration problems . Unlike traditional operations groups, we also have full access to and authority to fix, extend, and scale the code to keep it working and harden it against all the vagaries of the Internet. We hire people from both systems and software backgrounds. Strong candidates will have experience with both.

Just as what we do is unique, where we do it is unique too. At Google, we have the good fortune to have developed many interesting systems ranging from planet-spanning databases to near real-time scalable data warehousing to fault-tolerant datastream joining . In SRE, we flip between the fine-grained detail of disk driver I/O scheduling to the big picture of continental-level service capacity, across a range of systems and a user population measured in billions. We own those products in production. We drive reliability and performance across massive scale by mastering the full depth of the stack. We literally do learn something new every day - usually surprising things - that have the potential to transform the lives of billions of our users around the world.

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

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

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.