Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Company: Google
Location: Cupertino
Posted on: January 12, 2026
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Job Description:
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. 4 years of experience leading projects, and providing
technical leadership. 3 years of experience in designing,
analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Preferred
qualifications: Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
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 Googles
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. SREs 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 Googles product portfolio possible. Were
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 $248,000-$349,000 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 .
Responsibilities 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 like automation, and evolve
systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and
velocity. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless
postmortems.
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