Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Go).
- 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- 3 years of experience leading projects.
- Ability to work across time zones, including weekend on-call work.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
- Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, VLANs, Load Balancing, etc.).
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, and problem-solving skills.
About the job
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.
The SRE team, works to improve the latency, reliability, and observability of L7 Load Balancing with Google Cloud. We deliver secure, low-latency, high bandwidth, cost effective ingress and egress proxies for TCP proxying and HTTP protocols. External proxies act as first servers between the Internet and Google Cloud Platform customers. Internal proxies allow Cloud Customers to build their systems from scalable services, load balanced at the HTTP or HTTP2 level. We collaborate with partners on system design, implement automation, observability or fast mitigation tools, or make changes directly in binaries.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- 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 creative uses of AI to evolve systems, pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
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