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Senior Staff Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google

Zürich, Switzerland
Full-time, Regular
Posted Sep 07, 2025
Onsite

About the role

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of complex AI-powered systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency
  • Lead and influence cross-organisational collaborations, ensuring adherence to product goals and initiatives to move work forward
  • Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions
  • Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards, and to cultivate innovation and collaboration across multiple teams
  • Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience with programming in one or more programming languages
  • 4 years of experience leading projects
  • 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • Experience with Machine Learning Infrastructure

Benefits

  • Reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement
  • 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
  • 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

About the Company

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting

Job Details

Salary Range

$122,200 - $135,800/yearly

Location

Zürich, Switzerland

Employment Type

Full-time, Regular

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