Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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Job summary

Google in San Jose, CA is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering to build and run large-scale distributed systems, ensuring reliability, uptime, and rapid improvement. You will own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and tackle ambiguous problems with deep technical expertise.

The role emphasizes automation, capacity planning, and collaboration across teams, with a culture of mentorship and learning within a blame-free environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting and capacity planning.
• Maintain services after launch by monitoring availability, latency, and health.
• Scale systems sustainably via automation and improvements that increase reliability and velocity.
• Practice blameless postmortems and sustainable incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Software development

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Location: Google

San Jose, CA, USA

Experience Level: Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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 leading projects.
• 3 years of experience 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 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 or read a career profile 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 Salary

$207,000 - $300,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle 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 postmortems.

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Google is a global company, and in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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Locations

• Google
• San Jose, CA, USA