Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Billing

Google LLC; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in New York, NY, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering focused on Cloud Billing. You will design, build, and operate large-scale, fault-tolerant systems with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

The role requires deep coding expertise, experience with distributed systems, and the ability to lead projects across global teams. Competitive compensation includes a 20% bonus target, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

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.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage in the full lifecycle of services—from inception to deployment and refinement.
• Manage availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Google services by engineering reliability into software and systems.
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; write software and build automation to prevent recurrence.
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.

Skills

8 years of software development

3 years leading projects

Distributed systems troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Billing

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• 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.
  
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders and work effectively with global teams.
  

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 Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

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 Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's 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 Cloud, 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.

In this role, you will focus on the reliability, accuracy, and timeliness of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing systems and mission-critical APIs. Our charter is expanding to include more Google Cloud Billing and Payment (GCBP) services while driving AI adoption and tooling improvements across Google Cloud.

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
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• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Manage availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Google services by engineering reliability into software and systems.
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.

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