SRE Software Engineer III – Reliability at Scale

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in San Francisco seeks engineers to manage reliable, scalable services across Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and more. The role blends software and operations, with the authority to fix and scale code to meet internet-scale demands.

You will write development code, review peers, contribute to documentation, triage incidents, and participate in design reviews. The position emphasizes both systems and software backgrounds and offers a global impact

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in San Francisco seeks engineers to manage reliable, scalable services across Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and more. The role blends software and operations, with the authority to fix and scale code to meet internet-scale demands.

You will write development code, review peers, contribute to documentation, triage incidents, and participate in design reviews. The position emphasizes both systems and software backgrounds and offers a global impact