Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Privacy, Security and Safety
- Location
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Switzerland. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Switzerland, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P4 · asks for 8+ years.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Google's posting.
Site reliability engineering for the privacy, security and safety infrastructure behind Google Cloud, building production safety baselines and limiting blast radius for AI pipelines and agentic scaling. The team sits in Technical Infrastructure and keeps Google Cloud services reliable, available and fast to improve.
What you'd do
- Shape services from design through launch, including system design consulting and launch reviews.
- Build software platforms and frameworks that let services be run and scaled reliably.
- Plan capacity and monitor availability, latency and overall health of live services.
- Automate operational work and push for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Lead incident response and blameless postmortems for production systems.
- Contain blast radius for non-deterministic AI pipelines and scale localized authorization.
What it asks for
- Undergraduate degree in CS or a nearby field, or hands-on work experience instead.
- 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
- 4 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.
- 3 years designing, analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Graduate degree in CS or engineering (preferred).
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems (preferred).
- Experience with generative AI agents and machine learning (preferred).
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