Google
Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Found: March 2, 2026
This role is based in London, UK.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of software, systems engineers on projects for users and take direct responsibility for uptime.
- Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services by building automation to prevent problem recurrence and automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
- Mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution by leading through example.
- Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
- Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience managing people or teams.
- 3 years of experience leading projects.
- 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with Google infrastructure, compute infrastructure networking, and edge infrastructure.
- Understanding of advanced networking concepts, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing, encapsulation, software-defined networks, etc.