Senior Software Engineer, Storage, Site Reliability Engineering

Google • Durham, NC, USA, Raleigh, NC, USA

Posted 4d ago🏛️ On-Site Senior Site reliability engineer 📍 Durham 📍 Raleigh

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Python Linux Distributed systems Data structures Algorithms

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Google is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems. You'll leverage your expertise in Python, Linux, and algorithms to ensure the reliability and performance of Google's services. This role is based in Durham or Raleigh, NC.

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

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 our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + 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.

Design, plan, and execute on software engineering projects that help products operate efficiently and reliably inside of Google's data center.
Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and ultimately root causing and implementing automated and self-healing solutions to prevent incidents in the future.
Debug live production systems.

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