Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Minimum Qualifications

• 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, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large‑scale, massively distributed, fault‑tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google’s services—both internally critical and externally‑visible—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SRE will keep an ever‑watchful eye on system capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimising 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 unique to Google, 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 organisation brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage collaboration, big‑thinking and risk‑taking in a blame‑free environment, promoting self‑direction on meaningful projects while also providing support and mentorship to learn and grow.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining data centres to building the next generation of Google platforms, we enable Google’s product portfolio. We pride ourselves on being engineers’ engineers and love taking things apart and rebuilding them. We keep networks up and running, ensuring users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $207,000–$300,000 plus bonus, equity and 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.

• 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 such as automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post‑mortems.

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, colour, 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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