Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Caching SRE
New York, NY, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in 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
Leads the design and operation of reliable, automated production systems for Google Cloud, improving service availability, capacity, and performance at scale.
What you'll do
- Improve services throughout their lifecycle, from design and deployment through operation and refinement.
- Support launches with system design, software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews; monitor live service health.
- Scale systems through automation, improve reliability and velocity, and practice sustainable 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.
- Experience mentoring engineers, cultivating a high-standards team culture, applying deep AI proficiency to infrastructure issues, or shaping technical strategy and consensus.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) (base salary); + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
AI focus
Apply deep AI proficiency to solve highly ambiguous infrastructure issues and drive significant business impact (preferred qualification).
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