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Site Reliability Manager, Data center Networking, SRE

The manager will lead a team to improve system reliability, incident response times, and network infrastructure performance. They will also define service level objectives and ensure the safe rollout of new network products.

  • On-site
  • Waterloo, ON
  • Posted Jul 30, 2026
  • 1 position

Job summary

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience. * 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures and algorithms. * 3 years of experience managing people or teams, leading projects, and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: * Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field. 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's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' 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, 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. To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering [https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html] or read a career profile [https://careers.google.com/stories/site-reliability-engineering-profile-google/] about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Canada: $216000 - $221000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/]. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Build a cohesive, mission-first culture across locations. Scale your leadership by empowering trusted Tech Leads and domain experts, while actively prioritizing work to ensure sustained high-performance and on-call health. * Act as the ultimate execution owner for the team's strategic efforts. Focus on drastically improving Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mitigation (MTTM) for incidents through advanced signaling, tooling, and integrating new signals into auto-mitigation systems. * Set the bar for developer excellence across the SDN ecosystem. Influence the design and rollout of new network products (NPIs) to ensure they are introduced safely, deliver high reliability to GCP customers, and preserve system simplicity. * Partner closely with PLANET and sibling SRE shards to define and monitor Network Service Level Objectives (SLOs), co-own blameless postmortems, and establish end-to-end repair coverage for network infrastructure.

What you’ll do

The manager will lead a team to improve system reliability, incident response times, and network infrastructure performance. They will also define service level objectives and ensure the safe rollout of new network products.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, along with 8 years of software development experience. Additionally, 3 years of experience in people management and distributed systems design is required.

Benefits

• Bonus target • Equity • Health benefits

Listed skills

  • Project managementPreferred

Other relevant skills

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  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Data center networking
  • Software development
  • Distributed systems
  • System design
  • Automation
  • Algorithms
  • Complexity analysis
  • Leadership
  • Project management
  • Incident management
  • SDN
  • Network infrastructure
  • Service Level Objectives
  • Mentorship
  • Influencing Skills
  • Intellectual Curiosity
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Influencing Without Authority
  • People Management
  • Complexity Analysis
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Data Structures
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Problem Solving
  • Network Service
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Design
  • Tooling
  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)

Job areas

  • Technology
  • Management & Leadership
  • Software
  • Engineering
  • Data & Analytics
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • Data Manager
  • Database Designers and Administrators
  • Database Architects

Additional details

Minimum education
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum experience
5+ years
Posting language
English
Working hours
40 hours per week