Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

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.

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.

Qualifications

• 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. 4 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership. 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Experience in and passion for monitoring and observability. Familiarity with the emerging landscape of AI/ML development and operations (MLOps), particularly for agentic applications.

Pay

US: $262000 - $365000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits