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October 14, 2025

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Networking

Senior • On-site

$166,000 - $244,000/yr

San Francisco, CA


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 2 years of experience in leading projects and providing technical leadership.
  • Experience in building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with technologies such as virtualization and software infrastructure systems, compute, storage, data migration, capacity, load balancing, and software defined networking.
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocols (TCP/IP), Routing, VPNs, Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), Peering, Load Balancing, etc).
  • Knowledge of Domain Name System (DNS), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Load Balancing, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and Linux.
  • Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., HTTP, DNS, TLS, HTML) and networking (e.g., routing, TCP/IP).
  • Excellent people management and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a team.

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.

In this role, you will work with code, networking, and large-scale systems interactions. You will partner with developers to design and build global-scale products. You will impact the reliability of every google product, with chances to grow as a technical leader.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the fleets of servers and become knowledgeable about networking.
  • Partner with the development teams on new features and architectural changes through the whole product life-cycle from the initial brainstorming efforts, through the launch to production.
  • Manage some of the most important and fundamental infrastructure at Google and work on its growth.
  • Work with products at Google (e.g., Gmail, Apps, Ads, etc).