About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or

equivalent practical experience.

* 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience collaborating effectively across organizational boundaries,

building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad

organizational goals.

* Experience leading technical strategy and influencing engineering direction

across multiple teams.

* Experience leading cross-organizational technical programs or initiatives at

scale.

* Experience with agentic systems and using AI to support production

operations, including familiarity with LLM-based tooling, AI-driven

automation, or intelligent incident response systems.

* Ability to understand complex relationship between the organization and its

environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives and quickly

respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.

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's services—both our internally critical and our

externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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.

To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering

[https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html] or read a career profile

[https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/]

about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

In this role, you will

develop, design, and drive technical engineering projects
and decisions for Apps, Video and Display (AViD) infrastructure and production
systems. You will mentor and lead other executive level engineers within AViD
SRE and across Ads to achieve our aligned mission.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,
experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Ensure that Google Ads services within the AViD ecosystem have reliability
and uptime appropriate to users' needs with a fast rate of improvement, while
keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance.
* Build creative engineering solutions to operations and infrastructure
problems, including AI-powered automation and agentic workflows for
production operations.
* Lead and contribute to the cross-SRE AI Ops program, driving the strategic
adoption of AI/ML tools to improve incident response, reduce toil, and
enhance service reliability across Ads SRE.
* Focus on optimizing existing systems, build infrastructure, and eliminate
work through automation and AI-driven operational improvements.
* Determine how our systems relate to each other and use a breadth of tools and
approaches — including emerging AI capabilities — to solve a broad spectrum
of problems.

Which skills does this role require?

PythonCC++JavaJavaScriptLarge-scale System DesignAI-driven OperationsCapacity PlanningPerformance OptimizationMentorshipAViDYouTube AdsDistributed SystemsMLPerformance AnalysisSoftware EngineeringCross-functional CollaborationAds InfrastructureMachine LearningLLMs

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