Site Reliability Engineer

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
San Jose, CA, USA;
New York, NY, USA
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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and developing infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience in troubleshooting and debugging.
• 5 years of experience building and architecting production quality Machine Learning (ML) systems.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++, Go, or Python.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
• Experience in troubleshooting and supporting applications like web services, data storage, databases, data pipelines, commerce engines, with Linux/Unix or other operating systems.

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 needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SREs will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large‑scale system design. SRE’s culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success.

Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame‑free environment. We promote self‑direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

In this role, you will drive the supportability and reliability of Woodshed and Napa, two key data intelligence systems underlying Google’s AI push.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207,000 - $301,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.

• Lead the team in our top 2026 challenge, reducing the support cost of the products via correct provisioning, intelligent alerting, and system design and deployment improvements.
• Grow the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team from trained on-callers and incident responders to system partners.
• Build trust with and influence over key stakeholders to drive successful scaling of the supportability of complex systems.
• Identify problems and pain‑points of the team, development partner teams, and customers; and drive solutions balancing short‑term and long‑term needs.
• Work with critical customers to give them the reliability they need for their key user journeys.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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