Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Observability

Company: Google
Location: New York City
Posted on: April 3, 2026

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, C, C++, Python, Java). 5 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. 4 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. 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. DevEx SRE is responsible for the Observability Infrastructure (Monarch/Cloud Monitoring/Cloud Logging/Alerting) as well as Cloud Developer infrastructure (Firebase, Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Gemini Code Assist). Cloud Lifecycle SRE (the product area) make it easier for customers to onboard onto the cloud, easier to use more cloud services together, and easier to build & manage applications. It is part of the Google Cloud Platform Reliability organization, which aims to provide a reliable, high-performance and secure platform exposing APIs on behalf of all API producers at Google. 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 $262,000-$365,000 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 Participate in setting the strategic direction of the Observability and Cloud Developer Infrastructure SRE teams, and partner with the Producer Foundations/D&E dev partners to ensure SRE engages in the most critical and impactful programs. Set clear technical direction, intent and best practices within your team. Provide expert advice and guidance to other infrastructure team staff and software developers, and mentor and grow team leaders. Respond effectively to service failures to maintain the platform conformance to SLOs.

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