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Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-site)

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

1 Month ago • 8-8 Years • Backend Development • DevOps

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algorithms

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Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, uptime, and performance of Google Cloud services. You'll be responsible for building and managing large-scale, distributed systems, while also optimizing existing systems, developing infrastructure, and automating routine tasks. This role requires strong programming skills, expertise in algorithms and data structures, and a deep understanding of distributed systems. You'll be part of a collaborative team that fosters a culture of intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.

Must have:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms
5 years of experience with software development
3 years of experience leading projects and designing distributed systems
Strong problem-solving skills
Excellent communication skills

Good to have:

Experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking
Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
Excellent problem-solving, verbal and written communication 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.

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 diversity, 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.

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.

Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception, design 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.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Work on the availability, scalability, efficiency and latency of some of Google Cloud’s most critical services.
Solve operations problems by using software engineering principles and best practices. Collaborate with the developer teams on design, architecture and processes.

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