Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Pipeline Resilience

Google Inc.; Pittsburgh, Northern (Allegheny County, KY); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Pittsburgh, PA, USA is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the AQI Data SRE team. You will define technical goals, oversee architectural roadmaps, and drive reliability across SAGE/SPARK production stacks.

You’ll lead design reviews, simplify backends, and ensure production readiness for Ads launches. The role requires 8 years of software development, 3 years of leadership, and deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale data processing.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical goal, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy for AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK production stack.
• Partner with dev leadership to lead system design reviews, drive backend simplification and resource isolation, and ensure production readiness for flagship Ads launches.
• Architect and lead the implementation of critical infrastructure projects, including data-pipeline resilience, automated rollback/restart platforms, and consolidated observability.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team, and push for software engineering excellence, AI-first tooling, and SRE best practices; drive the operational maturity handover that helps partner dev teams mature.
• Lead the response to complex production incidents, correlate production signals with customer and business impact, and drive high-impact post-incident architectural improvements and blameless postmortems and participate in a healthy tier 2 oncall rotation for core shared SAGE/SPARK infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Large-scale data processing

Leadership/mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Google Pittsburgh, PA, USA is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the AQI Data SRE team. You will define technical goals, oversee architectural roadmaps, and drive reliability across SAGE/SPARK production stacks.

You’ll lead design reviews, simplify backends, and ensure production readiness for Ads launches. The role requires 8 years of software development, 3 years of leadership, and deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale data processing.