Distinguished Engineer, Google Product Site Reliability
GoogleDistinguished Engineer, Google Product Site Reliability
GoogleLocation
Mountain View, CA
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/15/2026
Compensation
$364,000 - $505,000 per year
Job description
The Distinguished Engineer for Google Product Site Reliability will focus on defining and owning the long-term technical vision and strategy to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability across Google's user-facing products and services. This role involves collaboration with executive stakeholders to address reliability challenges and improve system performance. The engineer will also lead the adoption of AI-enabled tools to streamline operations and incident response. The position is critical in transforming Site Reliability Engineering practices towards an AI-first approach.
Requirements
- 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.
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 and methods to prioritize and address in a constrained environment, influencing teams to align and deliver.
Benefits
- Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Google Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
908
FY2026
Approval rate
98.4%
FY2026
LCA certified
4,273
FY2026
Entry-level share
0.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
-14%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-51%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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