Google
Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Found: January 3, 2026
This role is based in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Responsibilities:
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of service, from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortem.
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 in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- 2 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.