Google

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Semantic Understanding

Google • $207K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • 4 years applying Design for Reliability techniques.
  • 3 years as a Site Reliability Engineer.
  • 3 years leading projects.
  • 3 years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for SU SRE, mentoring team members.
  • Initiate and lead large-scale projects to improve reliability, scalability, and performance of SU services.
  • Partner with development teams to influence system design and architecture, embedding reliability principles.
  • Identify, analyze, and mitigate risks in production, implementing architectural improvements.
  • Participate in on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and drive postmortem actions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Retirement savings plans with company match.
  • Access to professional development resources.
  • Flexible work arrangements.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • 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.
  • 4 years of experience in applying Design for Reliability techniques.
  • 3 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
  • 3 years of experience leading projects.
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Experience in Generative AI, Generative AI Agent, Google Infrastructure.
  • Experience in large-scale and secure fleet management of servers and components.
  • Experience in enterprise risk assessments.
  • Experience with process improvement and automation.


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.

Semantic Understanding Platform (SUP) is the standard platform for hosting image, text, video and data understanding signals at Google. SUP is a unified platform for understanding and generating content, and developing signals from raw data. Our team ensures the reliability, scalability, and operation of several Semantic Understanding Services, which we develop jointly with our partner SWE teams.

This role is open to both Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Systems Engineering and SRE Software Engineering applicants.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Develop and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for critical areas within SU SRE, mentoring team members to enhance system reliability and efficiency.
  • Initiate, own, and lead large-scale, complex projects and programs to significantly improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of SU services, often spanning multiple teams and systems.
  • Partner with development teams to influence system design and architecture, embedding reliability principles throughout the development life-cycle. Drive alignment on technical direction across teams, navigating priorities.
  • Identify, analyze, and mitigate risks in production. Design and implement architectural improvements to ensure long-term service health, scalability, and efficiency.
  • Participate in the oncall rotation, respond to incidents, and drive postmortem actions to prevent recurrence.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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