Senior Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

1 Hour ago • 5-7 Years • Backend Development

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Job Description

Google Cloud seeks a Senior Software Developer for its Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This role involves the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement. Responsibilities include system design consulting, developing software platforms, capacity planning, monitoring system health, scaling systems through automation, and ensuring reliability and velocity improvements. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience, expertise in data structures and algorithms, and experience with large-scale distributed systems. Leading projects and providing technical leadership is also crucial. The SRE team focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating tasks to manage the complex challenges of Google Cloud's scale.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 5+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
  • 3+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • 2+ years project leadership
  • System design, development, deployment, operation & refinement
  • Monitoring, scaling and improving system reliability
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, and 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

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 diversity, 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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

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.
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$161.0K - $239.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$200.0K/yr avg.
San Francisco, California, United States

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