Staff SRE Engineer — Scale, Reliability & Automation

Google LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in New York, NY, USA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering to lead the design and reliability of distributed systems. You will drive architecture, scale, and automation across Google Cloud services, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers across sites.

The role emphasizes leadership, deep systems thinking, and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.

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.
• 3 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.

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 postmortems.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Site Reliability Engineering

Leadership

Architecture design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

AI/ML Tools

Job description

Google LLC in New York, NY, USA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering to lead the design and reliability of distributed systems. You will drive architecture, scale, and automation across Google Cloud services, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers across sites.

The role emphasizes leadership, deep systems thinking, and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.