Google

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve the full service lifecycle from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Support services before launch through system design consulting, software platform and framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
  • Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation and improve reliability and engineering velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Drive technical roadmaps, influence engineering direction across partner teams, and mentor distributed-site engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Eight years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • Three years of experience leading projects.
  • Three years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Three years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
  • Three years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: experience with multi-quarter technical roadmaps, cross-team technical influence, service reliability, SLOs, SLIs, capacity planning, automation, and planet-scale distributed systems.
  • Preferred: expertise in AI/ML tools and experience mentoring engineers across distributed sites.

Benefits

  • The posting states that the role includes a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits; individual pay is determined by skills, experience, education, and training.

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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