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# Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $174,000.0 - $252,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2D3F767358D8413391AD414397A9724C/job/

## About the Role

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area., * 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.


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