Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

About the Team

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google treats operations as a software problem. Our mission is to progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind all of Google's public services—including Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine—with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.

Behind everything users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We are proud to be our engineers' engineers, loving to take things apart to rebuild them better. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

About the Role

This is an unusual job, unlike others in the industry. Like traditional operations groups, we keep important, revenue-critical systems up and running despite hurricanes, bandwidth outages, and configuration problems. Unlike traditional operations groups, we also have full access to and authority to fix, extend, and scale the code to keep it working and harden it against all the vagaries of the Internet.

At Google, we have developed many interesting systems ranging from planet-spanning databases to near real-time scalable data warehousing to fault-tolerant datastream joining. In SRE, we flip between the fine-grained detail of disk driver I/O scheduling to the big picture of continental-level service capacity, across a range of systems and a user population measured in billions. We own those products in production and drive reliability and performance across massive scale by mastering the full depth of the stack. We literally learn something new every day—usually surprising things—that have the potential to transform the lives of billions of our users around the world.

Hiring Process

By applying to this position, you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA.