Staff Software Engineer, Colossus SRE.

DevOps & Engineering Full-Time

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The Role:This role is for a staff-level software engineer focused on SRE work for Google Cloud storage systems.
The Person:The person will improve the lifecycle of services, support system design and launch reviews, scale systems with automation, and drive scalability, reliability, efficiency, and security for Colossus SRE.
Requirements:The ideal candidate has 8 years of software development experience, 3 years leading projects, and 3 years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, with experience in distributed storage.

About the role

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.
3 years of experience leading projects.
3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Experience with technical direction of team members, performance, system architecture, systems data analysis and debugging
Experience with distributed storage.

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.

Colossus Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is responsible for the low-level filesystems that form the basis of Google's storage systems: one of the largest data storage systems in the world. Our goal is to provide efficient and scalable storage for Google's data. We work closely with our dev partners to provide system analysis and design, automation, tooling, and customer consultation to meet these goals.

Our team works closely with developers across storage systems up and down the stack including D, Colossus, Chronicle, Blobstore/Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and others.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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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.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Partner with Development and SRE leadership to design and drive efforts to increase the scalability, reliability, efficiency and security of cluster local filesystem services.
Drive technical direction and planning of integrating new services and flows into the Colossus SRE support.

Published September 16, 2026

Location New York, NY

Category DevOps & Engineering

Job Type Full-Time

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