Google

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google$207K — $301K *
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 with programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience with distributed systems design and troubleshooting.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Engage in the full service lifecycle from design to operational refinement.
  • Consult on system design, develop frameworks, and plan capacity before service launch.
  • Monitor service health and performance post-launch.
  • Scale systems sustainably, leveraging automation for improvements.
  • Conduct sustainable incident response and facilitate blameless postmortems.

Benefits

  • 20% bonus target based on performance.
  • Equity benefits.
  • Comprehensive support for professional development and mentorship.
  • A culture that fosters collaboration and innovation.
  • Access to unique problem-solving challenges at scale.
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 in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.


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's services-both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems-have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle 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
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Google

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering jobs: