Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

In this role you will help ensure Google Cloud’s services are reliable, scalable, and fast. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to design and deploy resilient systems, optimize performance, and drive automation that reduces manual work. You will lead capacity planning, launch reviews, and incident response with a blameless postmortem culture. This position offers the chance to influence large-scale infrastructure and mentor teams while advancing reliability and velocity.

• Oversee end-to-end lifecycle of services from design to deployment, operation, and refinement
• Provide system design consulting and develop platforms/frameworks to support live services
• Conduct capacity planning and participate in launch reviews
• Monitor availability, latency, and health of live services and respond to issues
• Scale systems through automation and push for reliability improvements and faster delivery
• Practice blameless incident response and conduct postmortems

• 8 years of software development experience in languages such as Python, C, C++, or Java
• 3 years of experience managing projects and designing, investigating, and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)

• collaboration
• problem solving
• openness and willingness to take risks in a blame-free environment
• distributed systems design
• data structures and algorithms
• capacity planning