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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, GCS - **Company:** Google LLC - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $207,000.0 - $300,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Data Centers, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Perl (Programming Language), Fault Tolerance, Google Tools, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Big O, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Google Cloud, Information Technology, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** May 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=76eb27955cb530c3 ## About the Role * 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., * Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. * 3 years of experience working with algorithms, data structures, analysis and software design. * Experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby. ## Description 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 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. As a part of the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) SRE, you will help scale one of the world's largest object storage systems. You will collaborate with a supportive global team and partner with developers to launch features or drive reliability projects with our Sydney-based engineers. As a Tier 1 on-call member, you will leverage operational insights to lead high-impact engineering projects and mentor talent. Your role will offer a unique opportunity to support reliability and directly influence the technical evolution of a critical, global Google service. 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., * Manage the complete life-cycle of services, from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement. * Enable service launches by conducting system design consultation, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and performing 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. * Lead sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. ## Related Videos - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) - [Coroutine explained yet again 60 years later](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/690-coroutine-explained-yet-again-60-years-later) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) ## Related Articles - [Software Engineer Career: Things You Should Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/143-software-engineer-career-things-you-should-know) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Best Countries for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/267-best-countries-for-software-engineers) - [How Much Does a Software Engineer Make? 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