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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AQI Data SRE

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14 hours ago
Pittsburgh, PA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical goal, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy for AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK production stack.
  • Lead system design reviews, backend simplification, resource isolation, and production readiness for flagship Ads launches in partnership with development leadership.
  • Architect and lead data-pipeline resilience, automated rollback and restart platforms, and consolidated observability projects.
  • Mentor and grow engineers while advancing software engineering excellence, AI-first tooling, and SRE best practices.
  • Lead complex production incident response, connect production signals to customer and business impact, and drive architectural improvements and blameless postmortems.
  • Participate in a tier 2 on-call rotation for shared SAGE/SPARK infrastructure.

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.
  • Three years of experience leading projects.
  • Three years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Experience with large-scale data processing.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, experience with distributed real-time systems and high-throughput data pipelines, and knowledge of agentic flows or AI-assisted production and reliability tooling.
  • Preferred qualifications include architectural alignment and technical-influence experience across large engineering organizations, collaboration with development teams, and experience building scalable self-service reliability and observability.

Benefits

  • US base salary of $207000-$300000 USD, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google benefits are available as described in the posting.
  • The role includes participation in a tier 2 on-call rotation.

Tech Stack

Apache SparkGoogle 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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