Distinguished Engineer, Google Product Site Reliability

Mountain View, CAOnsiteFull TimeDistinguished / Architect$364,000–$505,000 /yrPosted 29 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Google Cloud
SRE
distributed systems
concurrency
multithreading
synchronization
algorithms
data structures
complexity analysis
software design

Nice to have

organizational boundaries
strategic thinking
negotiation

Role summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Distinguished Engineer for Product Site Reliability. This role involves defining and owning the long-term technical vision and strategy for efficiency, reliability, and scalability across Google's user-facing products. The engineer will collaborate with executive stakeholders in areas like Ads, Search, and YouTube, and lead the transformation of SRE towards AI-first production practices. Key responsibilities include directing the development of AI-enabled tools to reduce toil and improve incident response, and identifying and addressing classes of issues like change safety and failure domain isolation. The position requires extensive experience in software development, distributed systems, concurrency, and core computer science principles.

Minimum qualifications:

15 years of experience in software development.
Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.
Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Experience in concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries, building multi-dimensional stakeholder relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.
Ability to understand the complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives, and quickly respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.
Ability to cultivate ideas across organizational boundaries that create strategic opportunities that are greater than what is possible within a single product area.
Excellent problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills that drive executional impact at scale.

About the job:

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $364000 - $505000 (USD) + 40% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

Define and own the long-term technical vision and strategy that drive efficiency, reliability, and scalability across Google's user-facing products and services.
Work with executive stakeholders with a focus on Ads, Search, Geo, YouTube, and Platforms and Devices to understand, align, and improve reliability challenges and needs.
Direct the development and safe adoption of AI-enabled tools to systemically reduce toil, up-level incident response, and detect user pain points.
Help lead the transformation of SRE toward AI-first production practices.
Identify classes of issues (e.g., change safety, failure domain isolation) and methods to prioritize and address in a constrained environment, influencing teams to align and deliver.

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