Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Typically 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Typically 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.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to manage complex challenges unique to Google Cloud.
• Culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness.
• Collaborative work environment with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Encouragement for self-direction, meaningful projects, and growth.