Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Socket.dev; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target 20%

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and run large-scale distributed systems that power our services. You will work on reliability, uptime, and performance, applying software engineering to infrastructure and automation.

Our SRE culture emphasizes curiosity, collaboration, and ownership. You will help maintain capacity, monitor systems, and improve efficiency while solving complex scale challenges in a blame-free environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems.
• Improve reliability, uptime, and performance of services.
• Automate manual tasks and optimize capacity and efficiency.

Skills

Software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

MINIMUM 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 in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.

SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering [https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html] or read a career profile [https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/] about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].