Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering
Company: Google
Location: Pittsburgh
Posted on: April 4, 2026
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Job Description:
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,
Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 2
years of experience with software development in one or more
programming languages. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in
Computer Science or Engineering. 2 years of experience designing,
analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
About the job Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get
when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. Our
mission is to progress, protect, and provide for the software and
systems behind all of Google’s public services - Search, Ads,
Gmail, Android, YouTube, and AppEngine, to name just a few - with
an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance,
and capacity. This is an unusual job, unlike others in the
industry. Like traditional operations groups, we keep important,
revenue-critical systems up and running despite hurricanes,
bandwidth outages, and configuration problems . Unlike traditional
operations groups, we also have full access to and authority to
fix, extend, and scale the code to keep it working and harden it
against all the vagaries of the Internet. We hire people from both
systems and software backgrounds. Strong candidates will have
experience with both. Just as what we do is unique, where we do it
is unique too. At Google, we have the good fortune to have
developed many interesting systems ranging from planet-spanning
databases to near real-time scalable data warehousing to
fault-tolerant datastream joining . In SRE, we flip between the
fine-grained detail of disk driver I/O scheduling to the big
picture of continental-level service capacity, across a range of
systems and a user population measured in billions. We own those
products in production. We drive reliability and performance across
massive scale by mastering the full depth of the stack. We
literally do learn something new every day - usually surprising
things - that have the potential to transform the lives of billions
of our users around the world. The US base salary range for this
full-time position is $147,000-$211,000 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 Write product or system development code. Review
code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure
best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy,
testability, and efficiency). Contribute to existing documentation
or educational content and adapt content based on product/program
updates and user feedback. Triage product or system issues and
debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the
impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders
to decide amongst available technologies.
Keywords: Google, Penn Hills , Software Engineer III, Site Reliability Engineering, IT / Software / Systems , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
