About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM 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.

* 3 years of experience leading projects.

* 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed

systems.

* Experience with large-scale data processing.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

* Experience in distributed, real-time systems and high-throughput data

pipelines.

* Knowledge or experience with agentic flows/development and with AI-assisted

production/reliability tooling.

* Proven track record of driving cross-functional architectural alignment and

influencing technical decisions across large engineering organizations.

* Excellent collaboration skills, with a track record of building trusted,

blameless partnerships with development teams.

* Excellent non-abstract large systems design skills, with experience building

scalable, self-service reliability and observability.

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 Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our

externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's

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 Cloud, 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.

Ads Quality Infrastructure (AQI) Data Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) keeps

Search Ads and Ads on Google Experiences (SAGE/SPARK) data processing reliable,

so those teams can deliver useful ads that create advertiser value. We own the

core infrastructure behind the Google Ads business across Google-owned surfaces,

including Google Search, Google Maps, and Feed Ads, and have a portion of Google

business.

AQI SRE owns: serving, data extraction and copy, and the platforms that keep

those systems fast and healthy. We partner with development teams to co-build

and support this infrastructure.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the

Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and

maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google

platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our

engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we

can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have

the best and fastest experience possible.Individual pay is determined by factors

including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Define the technical goal, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy

for AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK production stack.

* Partner with dev leadership to lead system design reviews, drive backend

simplification and resource isolation, and ensure production readiness for

flagship Ads launches.

* Architect and lead the implementation of critical infrastructure projects,

including data-pipeline resilience, automated rollback/restart platforms, and

consolidated observability.

* Mentor and grow engineers on the team, and push for software engineering

excellence, AI-first tooling, and SRE best practices; drive the operational

maturity handover that helps partner dev teams mature.

* Lead the response to complex production incidents, correlate production

signals with customer and business impact, and drive high-impact

post-incident architectural improvements and blameless postmortems and

participate in a healthy tier 2 oncall rotation for core shared SAGE/SPARK

infrastructure.

Which skills does this role require?

Distributed systemsLarge-scale data processingSystem designComplexity analysisAlgorithmsInfrastructure architectureData pipelinesIncident responseMentorshipCross-functional collaborationAI-assisted toolingDistributed SystemsData ProcessingAds Quality InfrastructureSAGESPARKSystem DesignReliability StrategyData PipelinesIncident ManagementPostmortemSoftware EngineeringAI-first toolingScalabilityGCPSparkProduct Strategy

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