Software Developer III, Site Reliability Development

3 Days ago • 2-4 Years • Systems Design • DevOps • $141,000 PA - $202,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Software Developer III position at Google Cloud's Site Reliability Development team in Waterloo, ON, Canada, focuses on building and maintaining large-scale, distributed systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, contributing to documentation, troubleshooting system issues, participating in design reviews, and managing project priorities. The ideal candidate will have experience with software development, data structures, algorithms, and large-scale system design. The role involves optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and automating tasks to ensure high reliability and uptime for Google Cloud services. The team fosters a collaborative and supportive environment, encouraging innovation and risk-taking.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 2+ years software development experience
  • 2+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
  • Code writing & review
  • Troubleshooting system issues
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or Engineering
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

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

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 Development combines software and systems development to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Site Reliability Development 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 Site Reliability Developers 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 Site Reliability Development 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. Site Reliability Developments 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.

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

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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 developers 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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