Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud, 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.
• 3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving, verbal and written communication skills.

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 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.

Perks and Benefits

• Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• Benefits include a culture of belonging, mentorship, and self-directed work on meaningful projects.
• Professional growth opportunities and collaboration with diverse talent.