Staff SRE Engineer — Real-Time Home IoT & Cloud

Google LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff SRE Software Engineer for Google Home in San Francisco to help scale and secure one of the most widely used ambient computing platforms. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and cross‑functional collaboration across hardware, cloud infrastructure and real‑time AI.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 8+ years of software development, 3+ years leading projects, and 3+ years designing distributed systems.

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.
• Define the technical outlook, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy for Home SRE.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff SRE Software Engineer for Google Home in San Francisco to help scale and secure one of the most widely used ambient computing platforms. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and cross‑functional collaboration across hardware, cloud infrastructure and real‑time AI.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 8+ years of software development, 3+ years leading projects, and 3+ years designing distributed systems.