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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Semantic Understanding

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San Jose, CAFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer role focused on reliability, scalability, and performance of Google's Semantic Understanding Platform (SUP) services within Google Cloud. Open to SRE Systems Engineering and SRE Software Engineering applicants; involves technical strategy, large-scale projects, and on-call duties.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for critical areas within SU SRE, mentoring team members to enhance system reliability and efficiency.
  • Initiate, own, and lead large-scale, complex projects and programs to significantly improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of SU services, often spanning multiple teams and systems.
  • Partner with development teams to influence system design and architecture, embedding reliability principles throughout the development life-cycle. Drive alignment on technical direction across teams, navigating priorities.
  • Identify, analyze, and mitigate risks in production. Design and implement architectural improvements to ensure long-term service health, scalability, and efficiency.
  • Participate in the oncall rotation, respond to incidents, and drive postmortem actions to prevent recurrence.

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.
  • 4 years of experience in applying Design for Reliability techniques.
  • 3 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
  • 3 years of experience leading projects.
  • 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Skills

Required:Software developmentDesign for ReliabilityDistributed systems
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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