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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Semantic Understanding

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6 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and drive technical strategy and roadmaps for critical Semantic Understanding SRE areas while mentoring team members.
  • Initiate, own, and lead large-scale projects and programs that improve service reliability, scalability, and performance across multiple teams and systems.
  • Partner with development teams on system design and architecture and embed reliability principles throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Identify, analyze, and mitigate production risks while implementing architectural improvements for long-term service health and efficiency.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and lead postmortem actions to prevent recurrence.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Eight years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • Four years of experience applying Design for Reliability techniques.
  • Three years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
  • Three years of experience leading projects.
  • Three years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, experience with Generative AI, Generative AI Agents, Google Infrastructure, large-scale secure fleet management, enterprise risk assessments, process improvement, and automation.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $207000-$300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google benefits are available; the posting does not specify a work arrangement.

Tech Stack

Google Cloud

Categories

Site Reliability
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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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