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Distinguished Engineer, Google Product Site Reliability

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Compensation
$364–505K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google seeks a Distinguished Engineer to set technical direction for reliability across its user-facing products and services. The role works with executive stakeholders across Ads, Search, Geo, YouTube, and Platforms and Devices, and guides AI-enabled tools and AI-first production practices. Candidates need 15 years of software development experience and experience with software fundamentals and distributed systems.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software DevelopmentAlgorithmsData StructuresComplexity AnalysisSoftware DesignDistributed SystemsConcurrencyMultithreadingSynchronizationCross-Organizational CollaborationStakeholder RelationshipsStrategic AdaptabilityProblem-SolvingNegotiationOrganizational SkillsWritten CommunicationVerbal Communication

Qualifications

15 Years Software Development ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • 15 years of experience in software development.

  • Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.

  • Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

  • Experience in concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries, building multi-dimensional stakeholder relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.

  • Ability to understand the complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives, and quickly respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.

  • Ability to cultivate ideas across organizational boundaries that create strategic opportunities that are greater than what is possible within a single product area.

  • Excellent problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills.

  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills that drive executional impact at scale.

About the job

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $364000 - $505000 (USD) + 40% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the long-term technical vision and strategy that drive efficiency, reliability, and scalability across Google's user-facing products and services.

  • Work with executive stakeholders with a focus on Ads, Search, Geo, YouTube, and Platforms and Devices to understand, align, and improve reliability challenges and needs.

  • Direct the development and safe adoption of AI-enabled tools to systemically reduce toil, up-level incident response, and detect user pain points.

  • Help lead the transformation of SRE toward AI-first production practices.

  • Identify classes of issues (e.g., change safety, failure domain isolation) and methods to prioritize and address in a constrained environment, influencing teams to align and deliver.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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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.

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