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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AViD, YouTube Ads

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Compensation
$262–364K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer will develop, design, and drive technical engineering projects and decisions for Apps, Video and Display infrastructure and production systems. The role focuses on reliability, uptime, capacity, and performance across Google Ads services, while advancing AI-powered automation and operational improvements. The engineer will lead and mentor across AViD SRE and Ads, including strategic adoption of AI/ML tools for incident response and service reliability.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software DevelopmentProgramming LanguagesCross-Organizational CollaborationTechnical StrategyTechnical LeadershipTechnical Program LeadershipAgentic SystemsAI OperationsLLM-Based ToolingAI-Driven AutomationIntelligent Incident ResponseStrategic Adaptability

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related Field or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Software Development ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience collaborating effectively across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.

  • Experience leading technical strategy and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams.

  • Experience leading cross-organizational technical programs or initiatives at scale.

  • Experience with agentic systems and using AI to support production operations, including familiarity with LLM-based tooling, AI-driven automation, or intelligent incident response systems.

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

About the job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

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, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.

SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. 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.

To learn more: check out our books onSite Reliability Engineering (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) or read acareer profile (https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/) about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

In this role, you will develop, design, and drive technical engineering projects and decisions for Apps, Video and Display (AViD) infrastructure and production systems. You will mentor and lead other executive level engineers within AViD SRE and across Ads to achieve our aligned mission.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that Google Ads services within the AViD ecosystem have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs with a fast rate of improvement, while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance.

  • Build creative engineering solutions to operations and infrastructure problems, including AI-powered automation and agentic workflows for production operations.

  • Lead and contribute to the cross-SRE AI Ops program, driving the strategic adoption of AI/ML tools to improve incident response, reduce toil, and enhance service reliability across Ads SRE.

  • Focus on optimizing existing systems, build infrastructure, and eliminate work through automation and AI-driven operational improvements.

  • Determine how our systems relate to each other and use a breadth of tools and approaches — including emerging AI capabilities — to solve a broad spectrum of problems.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

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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How this job compares

Set against the 7,878 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$262–364K/yr
  • California median$187–274K/yr1,220 salary ranges
  • US median$147–245K/yr5,900 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $313K, is 37% above the California median midpoint ($228K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,675 open Software Engineering jobs in California and 7,878 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,080 postings).
Education
2,180 of the 7,878 open Software Engineering jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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