Google

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Caching SRE

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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and operation of resilient, automated production environments that meet stringent service-level objectives.
  • Improve services across their full lifecycle from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms and frameworks, perform capacity planning, and conduct launch reviews.
  • Monitor availability, latency, and overall service health for live services.
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation and drive changes that improve reliability and engineering velocity.
  • Lead sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Shape technical strategy, influence engineering decisions, drive cross-functional consensus, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience leading projects.
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Preferred: experience mentoring engineers and cultivating a high-standards team culture.
  • Preferred: deep AI proficiency applied to ambiguous infrastructure issues and business-impacting problems.
  • Preferred: ability to shape technical strategy, influence critical engineering decisions, and drive consensus across cross-functional teams.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $207000 - $300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Work focuses on Google Cloud and large-scale distributed infrastructure; specific remote or office logistics are not stated.

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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