Staff SRE Engineer, Caching & Reliability - Equity & Bonus

Google Inc.

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 207,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering, focusing on caching SRE in New York. You will architect resilient production environments and lead critical reliability initiatives, including capacity planning and cross-team collaboration to meet demanding SLIs.

A strong focus on distributed systems, leadership, and AI-informed infrastructure decisions is essential. Join a team that values engineering excellence, scalable systems, and blameless postmortems while

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.

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.