Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Distributed Cloud

Requirements

  • 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 leading projects.
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Nice to Haves

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Experience administering, debugging, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in complex, enterprise production environments.
  • Experience applying core SRE principles such as defining SLIs/SLOs, driving down toil, and performing root cause analysis to distributed systems.
  • Experience configuring and using modern monitoring and logging stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager).
  • Proficiency in Golang or Python to build custom horizontal tooling, infrastructure controllers, and operational automation.
  • Strong foundation in Linux/UNIX internals and core networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, SDN).

What You'll Be Doing

  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
  • Support services before they go live through system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
  • Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems to improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
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