Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Google· Technical Infrastructure
Munich, Germany€156k - €159kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role at Google Cloud focused on building and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Combines software and systems engineering to ensure reliability, uptime, and performance of Google Cloud services. Emphasizes automation, capacity planning, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception and design through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
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 (e.g., Go, Java, C, C++).
- 4 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- 4 years of experience leading projects involving multiple teams.
Skills
Required:Distributed systems design and troubleshootingProgramming languages (Go, Java, C, C++)
Benefits
- Learn more about benefits at Google (provided in job posting).
- Equity in compensation and bonus potential included.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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