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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

3 Weeks ago • 8-8 Years • DevOps

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algorithms

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incident-response

cross-functional

Job Description

The Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role at Google involves designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. Responsibilities encompass the entire service lifecycle, from initial design and development to deployment, operation, and ongoing refinement. This includes system design consulting, capacity planning, monitoring system health, automating processes for scalability, and handling incidents with blameless postmortems. The ideal candidate possesses strong coding skills, a deep understanding of algorithms and distributed systems, and experience leading technical teams. The role requires collaboration across teams and a strategic approach to problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.

Must have:

8+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
5+ years software development experience
4+ years project leadership
3+ years experience with distributed systems
Strong communication skills

Good to have:

Cross-organizational collaboration experience
Influence without authority
Strategic thinking and adaptability
Ambiguity tolerance

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Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.
Ability to influence without authority and work with technical and cross-functional teams.
Ability to understand the relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives, and respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.
Ability to work with ambiguity, setting goals, and delivering them in a fast-changing environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent and explain business or technical concepts externally.

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.

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.

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