Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Early Career 2025

Google

Warszawa

Type of work

Full-time

Experience

Mid

Employment Type

Permanent

Operating mode

Office

Google

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another.

Company profile

Tech stack

C++

regular

C

regular

Java

regular

Python

regular

Go

regular

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.
Experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go.

Preferred qualifications:

Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Networking knowledge and understanding of network theory (e.g., different protocols (i.e., TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc.), MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing).
Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
Familiarity with running web services at scale, and understanding of Unix systems internals and networking.
Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a sense of ownership and drive.

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 on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

As a Software Engineer on the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, you will have the opportunity to manage the complex problems of scale which are unique to Google, using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Google's services.
Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
Conduct periodic on-call duties using a follow-the-sun model.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Undisclosed Salary

Permanent