Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Privacy, Security and Safety — Google Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27 days ago
Full description
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 4 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership.
- 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in Generative AI Agent and Machine Learning.
- Experience in Trust and Safety operations.
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 Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's 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 Cloud, 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.
PSS SRE provides the indispensable security and compliance bedrock for Google's infrastructure. In the AI era, the PSS UTL's leadership is critical to navigating Google's evolving technological frontier—pioneering production safety baselines for rapid agentic scaling, containing blast-radii for non-deterministic AI pipelines, and scaling localized authorization to unblock Google's next wave of AI innovation and business growth. The PSS UTL will also ensure that PSS SRE is an agentic native SRE team. 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
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
4 years of experience leading projects, and providing technical leadership.
3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Questions about this listing
What salary does Google Switzerland offer for this role?
The original listing does not state a salary. Our estimate for this role and sector in Zürich is CHF 113'500 - 172'000 gross per year — an estimate, not a figure communicated by Google Switzerland. The calculator on this site converts a gross salary into your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Google Switzerland offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Google Switzerland during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
How do I apply for this position at Google Switzerland?
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