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# Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

- **Company:** Google
- **Location:** München, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €156,000.0 - €159,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Code Optimization, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Information Technology, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e455b4673d6f892a

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical 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., * Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
 * Experience effectively, efficiently, and responsibly applying AI tooling and workflows to engineering practices.
 * Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
 * Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
 * Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective verbal and written communication skills.

## 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.