Staff SRE Software Engineer, Google Home
San Francisco, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 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 reliability, performance, and scalability engineering for Google Home services, setting architecture and reliability strategy across connected-device and cloud systems.
What you'll do
- Guide services through design, deployment, operation, and refinement, including system design, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
- Monitor availability, latency, and system health; scale services through automation and reliability improvements.
- Define Home SRE’s technical outlook, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software development experience 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, or a related field.
- Experience with client-to-cloud telemetry, CUJ monitoring, ML model serving, low-latency streaming, distributed IoT protocols, or cross-functional architectural alignment.
Pay
USD 207000 - 300000 base salary
AI focus
Works at the intersection of next-generation real-time Voice AI; focuses on optimizing ML serving and supporting Gemini for Home.
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