Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 207,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% bonus target

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering in Pittsburgh, PA. The role focuses on building and running large-scale, distributed systems to ensure reliability and uptime of Google’s services. The engineer will optimize existing systems and contribute through coding and system design.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in a related field, with 8 years of relevant experience. A competitive salary range of USD 207,000 - 301,000 is offered, alongside bonuses and benefits.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the life-cycle of services.
• Support services before they go live through system design consulting.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post‑mortems.

Skills

Software development in multiple programming languages

Designing and troubleshooting distributed systems

System capacity and performance monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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 internally critical and externally visible—have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. SRE also monitors system capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating manual work through automation. On the SRE team you will manage the complex challenges of scale that are unique to Google, applying expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large‑scale system design.

US: $207,000 - $301,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole life‑cycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post‑mortems.

EEO Statement

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents‑to‑be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google’s EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.