Google

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Caching SRE

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.
  • 3 years of experience leading software projects.
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred).
  • Experience in mentoring engineers and fostering a high-performance team culture (preferred).
  • Deep AI proficiency in addressing complex infrastructure issues and influencing technical strategies (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Engage in and improve the entire lifecycle of services, from design to deployment and refinement.
  • Provide support for services prior to launch, including system design consulting and capacity planning.
  • Monitor and maintain live services, tracking availability and health metrics.
  • Scale systems through automation and drive changes for improved reliability and performance.
  • Lead sustainable incident response practices and conduct blameless postmortems.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance and wellness programs.
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave policies.
  • Professional development opportunities and mentorship programs.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and innovative work environment.
  • Employee resource groups and community involvement initiatives.
Full Job Description
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.
  • 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 mentoring engineers and cultivating a high-standards team culture.
  • Experience applying deep AI proficiency to solve highly ambiguous infrastructure issues and drive significant business impact.
  • Ability to shape technical strategy, influence critical engineering decisions, and drive consensus across cross-functional teams.


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.

In this role, you will architect resilient, automated production environments that meet stringent Service Level Objectives. You will lead the team through some of Google's most pressing issues, including: scaling our architecture across the portfolio to accommodate exponentially growing demands for infrastructure capacity, supporting the growing business and compliance needs across different product areas, and adapting our operational models to support highly accelerated product development cycles.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.


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.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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