Distinguished Engineer, Google Product Site Reliability
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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.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $365,000-$505,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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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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