Google

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Traffic Virtnet

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 practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Experience with networking technologies such as TCP/IP, routing, VPNs, VLANs, and load balancing.
  • Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in and enhance the entire service lifecycle from design to operation.
  • Support pre-live services with system design consulting and capacity planning.
  • Monitor and maintain system availability, latency, and health for live services.
  • Automate processes to sustainably scale systems and enhance reliability and velocity.
  • Re-architect stack and phase out obsolete components while updating monitoring and automation tools.

Benefits

  • Work in a culture that values intellectual curiosity and problem-solving.
  • Opportunities for collaboration with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
  • Environment promotes self-direction on impactful projects.
  • Mentorship and support for continuous learning and growth.
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 designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • Experience in networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, VPNs, VLANs, peering, load balancing, etc).

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 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.

Traffic Virtnet (Virtual Network) Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) supports the control and data plane for Andromeda, the Software Defined Network (SDN) stack that is behind the Google Cloud Platform. The software that we support makes possible services like Internal Load Balancing (ILB), Google Cloud Load Balancing, Network Service Tiers, Virtual Private Cloud, etc.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or 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.
  • Re-architect our stack and plan the decommission of obsolete components and re-scale our base tools (monitoring, automation, rollouts).


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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$40.2 billion
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1998
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