Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 4 years of experience leading projects, providing technical leadership, and 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Nice to haves:

• Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.
• Ability to influence without authority and work with technical and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to understand the relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives, and respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, setting goals, and delivering them in a fast-changing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent and explain business or technical concepts externally.

What you'll be doing:

• 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 system design consulting, developing software platforms, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Perks and Benefits:

• Google is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology at scale.
• Culture of diversity, problem-solving, and openness.
• Support and mentorship for learning and growth.