SRE Engineering Manager: Scale, Reliability & Leadership

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 20%

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking an Engineering Manager within Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead a global team responsible for uptime, availability, and performance of key Google services. You will guide engineers, drive automation, and scale systems while mentoring staff and advancing reliability initiatives.

The role emphasizes ownership, architectural insight, and cross-continental on-call coordination, with a focus on scalable, fault-tolerant systems and a culture of collaboration and continuous

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience managing people or teams, leading projects, and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
• Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.

Skills

People management

Distributed systems

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Google is seeking an Engineering Manager within Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead a global team responsible for uptime, availability, and performance of key Google services. You will guide engineers, drive automation, and scale systems while mentoring staff and advancing reliability initiatives.

The role emphasizes ownership, architectural insight, and cross-continental on-call coordination, with a focus on scalable, fault-tolerant systems and a culture of collaboration and continuous