Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Core SRE

Requirements:

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

Nice to Have:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience in telemetry systems, incident and risk management.
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to balance product/development velocity with architectural hygiene.
• Ability to experiment and fail fast when initiatives do not work, learn from the experience, and share insights.
• Excellent systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of service 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:

• Joining a team combining software and systems engineering.
• Opportunity to work on complex challenges unique to Google Cloud.
• Culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness.
• Collaborative environment with a diverse team.
• Opportunity for self-direction and meaningful projects.