Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About This Role

This Staff Site Reliability Engineer role involves driving the supportability and reliability of Woodshed and Napa, key data intelligence systems that underpin Google's AI initiatives. The position requires expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design, managing the challenges of scale unique to Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in our top 2026 challenge, reducing the support cost of products via correct provisioning, intelligent alerting, and system design and deployment improvements
• Grow the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team from trained on-callers and incident responders to system partners
• Build trust with and influence over key stakeholders to drive successful scaling of the supportability of complex systems
• Identify problems and pain points of the team, dev partner teams, and customers; and drive solutions balancing short-term and long-term needs
• Work with critical customers to give them the reliability they need for their key user journeys

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience building and developing infrastructure or distributed systems
• 5 years of experience in troubleshooting and debugging
• 5 years of experience building and architecting production quality Machine Learning (ML) systems
• 5 years of experience programming in C++, Go, or Python

Nice to have:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience in troubleshooting and supporting applications like web services, data storage, databases, data pipelines, commerce engines, with Linux/Unix or other operating systems

Benefits

• 20% bonus target
• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits

About the Company

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems, ensuring Google Cloud's services have appropriate reliability, uptime, and a fast rate of improvement. The Technical Infrastructure team builds the architecture that keeps Google's products running, from developing data centers to building next-generation platforms.