Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, GCS
Company: Google
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
info_outline X In accordance with Washington state law, we are
highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available
to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance Retirement
Benefits: 401(k) with company match Paid Time Off: 20 days of
vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period
for the first five years of employment Sick Time: 40 hours/year
(increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary
sick days per instance Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby
Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13
paid days per year Note: By applying to this position you will have
an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the
following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA . Minimum
qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related
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.
Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or
Engineering. 3 years of experience working with algorithms, data
structures, analysis and software design. Experience in one or more
of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby. About the
job 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 a
part of the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) SRE, you will help scale one
of the world’s largest object storage systems. You will collaborate
with a supportive global team and partner with developers to launch
features or drive reliability projects with our Sydney-based
engineers. As a Tier 1 on-call member, you will leverage
operational insights to lead high-impact engineering projects and
mentor talent. Your role will offer a unique opportunity to support
reliability and directly influence the technical evolution of a
critical, global Google service. 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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is
$207,000-$300,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are
determined by role, level, and location. Within the range,
individual pay is determined by work location and additional
factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant
education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the
specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring
process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US
role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include
bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities Manage the complete life-cycle of services, from
inception and design, through to deployment, operation and
refinement. Enable service launches by conducting system design
consultation, developing software platforms and frameworks,
capacity planning and performing 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. Lead sustainable
incident response and blameless postmortems.
Keywords: Google, Santa Clara , Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, GCS, IT / Software / Systems , Sunnyvale, California
