Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud IRT

Google · London, UK

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.


Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

As Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Incident Response Team (IRT), you will respond to and help coordinate, mitigate, or resolve major incidents across all of Google Cloud Platform. Our rotation includes a community of some of the most experienced and executive engineers in Cloud Site Reliability Engineering. You will build the processes, systems, and tooling necessary to deliver customer-focused mitigations to critical Google Cloud Platform incidents. This will involve working on tooling, systems, and processes.

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

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, 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.
  • Experience troubleshooting production incidents as part of an on-call rotation.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Experience in telemetry systems, incident and risk management.
  • Ability to work across organizational boundaries.
  • Excellent systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.

DevOps pay context

Based on 1,247 disclosed DevOps salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $141K/year, with most offers between $115K and $173K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$210K).

Google ranks among the higher-paying employers for this role, at a $217K median across 21 disclosed postings.

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