Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering
Job Summary
Job Description
This Staff Software Engineer role at Google Cloud focuses on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Responsibilities include the entire service lifecycle, from design and development to deployment, operation, and refinement. SREs ensure Google Cloud services maintain high reliability and uptime, using automation and scaling mechanisms. The role requires managing complex, large-scale distributed systems, optimizing existing systems, and building infrastructure. Strong coding, algorithm, and system design skills are essential. The team prioritizes a culture of intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and collaboration in a blame-free environment. The successful candidate will engage in system design consulting, capacity planning, monitoring system health, and practice sustainable incident response. This role is based in Warsaw, Poland.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
- 8+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
- 5+ years software development experience
- 3+ years leading projects and designing distributed systems
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
Good to have:
- Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
- Debugging, code optimization, and automation skills
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
6 skills required
Job Details
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.
- 3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
- Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
- Excellent problem-solving, verbal and written communication skills.
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 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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