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Site Reliability Engineer- SWE- Cloud (Multiple Openings)

Google· Google Cloud
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Mountain View, CA, USA$152.8k - $211kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer role focusing on software engineering for cloud-based systems, with responsibilities spanning code development, design reviews, incident response, and system reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Write product or system development code.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies; Improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement; Manage support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews; Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and on building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions; Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health; Lead sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems; and Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by driving changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a Site Reliability Engineer-related occupation.
  • 2 years of experience in Software development utilizing C++, Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript; 2 years of experience in all the following: Distributed systems, Backend systems, Software architecture for scaled and reliable systems, Debugging/troubleshooting, and Software or System design; 2 years of experience in two of the following: Incident response management, Kubernetes, API design, Performance analysis, Machine learning infrastructure, Applied AI, improving efficiency of the system, security, integration testing, or real-time monitoring and alerting; and 1 year of experience in Distributed computing.

Skills

Required:Software developmentCode reviewDocumentationIncident response

Benefits

  • benefits determined by role, level, and location; Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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