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Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Google

Location

Sunnyvale, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/17/2026

Compensation

$174,000 - $252,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202698.4% approval-14% YoY
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Job description

The Senior Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering at Google focuses on treating operations as a software problem to enhance the reliability and performance of Google's public services. This role involves engaging in the entire lifecycle of services, from design to operation, ensuring their availability and efficiency. The team is responsible for maintaining and scaling systems while driving improvements through automation and incident response practices. Candidates will work on complex systems that impact billions of users globally.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design to deployment and refinement.
  • Support services before they go live through system design consulting, developing software platforms, and capacity planning.
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
  • Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by advocating for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.

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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