Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

1 Hour ago • 2-4 Years • Backend Development

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Job Description

Google Cloud seeks a Software Engineer III for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). This role involves designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software solutions for large-scale, distributed systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, troubleshooting system issues, contributing to documentation, and participating in design reviews. The ideal candidate possesses strong coding skills (data structures, algorithms), experience with large-scale system design, and a commitment to reliability and uptime. The role requires collaboration with peers and stakeholders and contributes to Google Cloud's continued growth and improvement of its services.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 2+ years software development experience
  • Experience with data structures/algorithms
  • System troubleshooting and debugging
  • Code review and documentation
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or Engineering
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience optimizing existing systems
  • Automation experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures/algorithms and software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

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 $136,000-$200,000 + 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

  • Write product or system development code.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
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$136.0K - $200.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$168.0K/yr avg.
Seattle, Washington, United States

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