Drimva

Google

Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

San Jose, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026

Experience
8 years of software development; 3 years leading projects; 3 years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Build, operate, and improve large-scale distributed systems and services, focusing on reliability, performance, capacity, and automation.

What you'll do

  • Improve services across their lifecycle, from design and deployment through operation and refinement.
  • Support launches through system design, software platforms, capacity planning, and launch reviews; monitor live service health.
  • Scale systems through automation, improve reliability and velocity, and practice incident response and blameless postmortems.

What they ask for

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Pay

$207000 - $300000 (USD) base salary

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First seen Oct 21, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)