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# Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $174,000.0 - $253,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6158e29511bf0683

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related 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 large-scale distributed systems.
2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership., * Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

## Description

* 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.


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