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Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google
New York City, USA
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
USD 207000-300000 / year
Discovered 6 days ago

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Responsibilities

  • Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle 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 evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

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, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
  • 3 years of experienceas a Site Reliability Engineer.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience driving multi-quarter technical roadmaps and influencing engineering direction across multiple partner teams without formal authority.
  • Demonstrated experience improving service reliability (SLOs/SLIs), capacity planning, and eliminating operational busy work through software engineering and automation.
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting planet-scale distributed storage, serving, or data-processing systems.
  • Expertise in AI/ML Tools, understanding of their applicability, functionality, and limitations.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong verbal and written communication skills and experience mentoring engineers across distributed sites.

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