via indeed · 25 May 2026 ·12 days ago

Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google
London
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Minimum qualifications:


  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:


  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

  • 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large\-scale distributed systems.
About the job
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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.Responsibilities
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  • 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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