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Google is hiring – Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering

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Latest Job Updates – July 2025

Join Google as a Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering (mid‑level) based in Bengaluru, India or other global offices (e.g., Warsaw, Sydney, Dublin). This role requires 2+ years of experience in software development and algorithms, with strong exposure to large-scale distributed systems. You’ll work on global‑scale systems like Search, Ads, Gmail, YouTube, and Cloud, driving reliability, performance, and automation across Google’s critical infrastructure.

🔹 Job Overview

  • Role: Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering
  • Company: Google
  • Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (also Warsaw, Sydney, Dublin)
  • Experience Required: 2+ years software development with data structures/algorithms
  • Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related, or equivalent practical experience
  • Salary: Not disclosed (US range $118 K–$170 K; local compensation varies) Google
  • Slug: software‑engineer‑site‑reliability‑engineering‑google

🔹 Job Description

You will write code to enhance system reliability and scalability, perform design and code reviews to enforce best practices, and participate in triaging and debugging production incidents. The role involves automating manual workflows, contributing to documentation and educational content, and participating in design reviews with stakeholders. SREs at Google treat operations as a software engineering problem, ensuring availability, latency, performance, and capacity are maintained across planet‑scale services. You’ll collaborate closely with development teams to remove toil through automation and design for reliability from first principles.

🔹 Candidate Profile

Key Skills:

  • Proficiency in programming and problem‑solving with data structures and algorithms
  • Experience in Linux/Unix internals and networking
  • Exposure to distributed systems, capacity planning, and performance optimization
  • Ability to debug, instrument, and automate system operations

Preferred Profile:

  • Experience with enterprise-level distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
  • Familiarity with Python, Go, Java, or C++
  • Insights into observability tools, incident response, and SLIs/SLOs
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and analytical skills
  • Growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, and ability to thrive in Google’s‍supercharged learning culture

🔹 About Google

Google leads globally in internet-scale technology—Search, Ads, Cloud, Gmail, YouTube, and beyond. As the originator of the SRE discipline, Google’s culture champions reliability, automation, scale, and innovation. Engineers are empowered to solve real-world problems with full access to production systems and ownership of the service lifecycle, backed by mentorship and a blame‑free environment fostering continuous growth and impac.

🔹 How to Apply

  • Tailor your résumé to highlight system reliability, automation, and distributed systems experience. Quantify impact when possible (e.g. improved uptime, reduced latency)
  • Emphasize open‑source or personal projects demonstrating coding plus automation
  • Apply via Google Careers portal; refer to Job ID if available in your region
  • Network and leverage referrals; cold messaging with concise templates can open doors