Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

2 Hours ago • 5-8 Years • DevOps • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role at Google combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed systems. Responsibilities include the entire service lifecycle, from design and deployment to operation and refinement. This involves system design consulting, developing software platforms, capacity planning, monitoring system health, scaling systems through automation, and improving reliability and velocity. The role also demands sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, distributed systems, and project leadership. They should possess strong debugging, optimization, and automation skills, coupled with effective communication and a systematic problem-solving approach.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 8+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
  • 3+ years leading projects, designing distributed systems
  • Expertise in large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong debugging, optimization, and automation skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • Typically 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  • Typically 3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective 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 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

Google - Senior Software Developer, AI/Machine Learning, Applied AI

Google

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Senior Software Developer, Front End, Android

Google

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Playrix - Senior Data Analyst (Attribution)

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
5 Months ago
Microsoft - Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Belgrade, Serbia (On-Site)
10 Hours ago
The Walt Disney Company - Manager, Software Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

California, United States (On-Site)
3 Days ago
Warner Bros Games - Senior Manager, Data Platform & AWS Infrastructure - (Streaming)

Warner Bros Games

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid)
4 Months ago
Microsoft - Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft

(On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Cloud

Google

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Google - Software Engineer III, Augmented Reality

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Software Engineer III, Full Stack, Core

Google

Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Pixel Core Platform

Google

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Machine Learning Algorithm Engineer, Silicon

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Cricketpedia - Backend Engineer - PHP only

Cricketpedia

Gurugram, Haryana, India (Remote)
2 Years ago
ByteDance - Software Engineer, Inference

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Google - Software Engineering Manager, Systems Acceleration, Silicon

Google

New Taipei, New Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Balbix - Staff AI Engineer

Balbix

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Google - Software Engineer III, Google Cloud, Google Data Centers

Google

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
5 Hours ago
Google - Senior Software Engineer, Android Automotive

Google

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

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

DraftKings - Manager, Data Engineering

DraftKings

Ireland (Remote)
1 Week ago
Google - Network Operations Engineer

Google

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Keywords Studios - Games Copywriter

Keywords Studios

County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
Riot Games - Staff Software Engineer, Unreal Tools - MMO

Riot Games

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Playrix - AI Artist

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
3 Weeks ago
Romero Games - Data Analyst

Romero Games

Galway, County Galway, Ireland (Remote)
3 Days ago
Google - Technical Solutions Engineer, Compute

Google

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Sales Manager, Engage Google Customer Solutions

Google

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
3 Hours ago
TransPerfect - Player Support Agent - German

TransPerfect

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Playrix - Senior Release Support Engineer

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

DevOps Jobs

Amber - Bazel Senior Build Engineer (Project Based)

Amber

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (Remote)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Machine Learning Engineer - Inference

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
Equivalent Jobs - MLOPS ENGINEER

Equivalent Jobs

(Remote)
5 Months ago
Google - Senior Solutions Acceleration Architect, Data

Google

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Wargaming - Infrastructure Engineer

Wargaming

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
9 Hours ago
Google - Systems Development Engineer III

Google

Reston, Virginia, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Google - Software Engineer, Storage Everywhere

Google

Durham, North Carolina, United States (On-Site)
2 Hours ago
DraftKings - Director of Engineering, Performance & Chaos

DraftKings

Canada (Remote)
1 Week ago
Ajmera Infotech - ASP.NET Developer with Azure Expertise

Ajmera Infotech

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Google - Data Cloud Consultant

Google

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Day ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Seoul, South Korea (On-Site)

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (On-Site)

Atlanta, Georgia, United States (On-Site)

Fremont, California, United States (On-Site)

Milan, Lombardy, Italy (On-Site)

Eemshaven, Groningen, Netherlands (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Sunnyvale, California, 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