Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • DevOps • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google Cloud plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and uptime of Google's services. Responsibilities include the entire service lifecycle, from design and development to deployment, operation, and refinement. This involves system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews. The role also focuses on maintaining live services by monitoring availability, latency, and system health, scaling systems sustainably through automation, and improving reliability and velocity. Incident response and blameless postmortems are also key aspects of this position. The SRE team works with massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems, leveraging expertise in coding, algorithms, and large-scale system design to address complex challenges at scale.
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 debugging, optimization, and automation
Good to have:
  • Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
  • Expertise in designing large-scale distributed systems

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.
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Expertise in 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 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 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.

Similar Jobs

Meta - Software Engineer, Systems ML - SW/HW Co-design

Meta

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Google - Software Engineer, Compiler, Scheduling and Optimization, Silicon

Google

Bellevue, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Google - Software Engineer II, User Protections, Core

Google

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Research Engineer (Machine Learning Training System) - 2025 Start

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
7 Months ago
ByteDance - Senior Research Scientist, Data Management and Security - Infrastructure System Lab

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
ByteDance - Cloud Solution Architect (Automotive Industry)

ByteDance

(On-Site)
2 Months ago
Brillio - Azure Kubernetes Architect - R01530963

Brillio

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
7 Months ago
11 bit studios - Junior DevOps Engineer

11 bit studios

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
ComeOn Group - DevOps Engineer

ComeOn Group

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
N-iX - Senior Python Engineer

N-iX

Ukraine (Remote)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Reddit - Engineering Manager - Ads Auto-Bidding

Reddit

(Remote)
1 Month ago
Google - Software Engineer, PhD, Early Career, Campus, 2025 Start

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Fluxon - Senior Software Engineer

Fluxon

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Remote)
7 Months ago
Google - Software Engineer, Cloud Console Platform, Front End

Google

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Inkittt - Strategy & Operations, Marketing

Inkittt

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Google - Senior Software Developer, Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos Networking

Google

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Power Integrations - Senior Applications Firmware Engineer

Power Integrations

Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Virtuos - Technical Director

Virtuos

China (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Inkittt - Public Relations Manager

Inkittt

San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Google - Senior Software Engineer, ChromeOS, Security

Google

Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Poland

Futurum Technology - Junior Front-end Developer

Futurum Technology

Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Lionbridge Games - Business Development Director

Lionbridge Games

Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Larian Studios - Lead Security & Network Engineer

Larian Studios

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Playtika - PHP Developer

Playtika

Poland (Hybrid)
7 Months ago
Netflix - Full-Stack Engineer (L5)

Netflix

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Netflix - Software Engineer L4 - Finance and Tax Technology

Netflix

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
4 Months ago
Fool's Theory - Senior Lighting Artist

Fool's Theory

Poland (Remote)
2 Months ago
Motorola Solutions - Corporate Credit Team Leader

Motorola Solutions

Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
CD PROJEKT RED - ML Game Systems Engineer

CD PROJEKT RED

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Playtika - Technical Product Owner

Playtika

Poland (Hybrid)
7 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

DevOps Jobs

PowerSchool - Cloud Operations Engineer 1

PowerSchool

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Omnissa - C++ Windows Internals Dev_MTS2/3 (2-7 Yrs)_Horizon Team

Omnissa

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
8 Months ago
ByteDance - Backend Software Engineer (Cloud Platform), Cloud Infrastructure

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
6 Months ago
ION - Site Reliability Engineer

ION

London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
7 Months ago
Google - Workspace Engineer

Google

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Google - Software Engineering Manager II, Google Cloud

Google

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior DevOps Engineer, Deep Learning Frameworks

NVIDIA

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Epic Games - Senior Programmer, Development and Operations (DevOps)

Epic Games

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Rackspace Technology - Senior GCP Cloud Engineer

Rackspace Technology

United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
Google - Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Cloud

Google

Sunnyvale, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)

Kirkland, Washington, United States (On-Site)

New Taipei, New Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Google

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug