Software Research Engineer
Salary: $126,916

As Google has some of the smartest people working on some of the hardest problems in software research, this is made possible for its software engineers to pull across some of the world-class software development, which is been the key to company’s product success. With most of its employees coming from a research background, research has always been the company’s main forte and is not treated as a separate activity.

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary: $124,194

You can literally lose thousands, if not millions, if your site is down. And especially for a company like Google, whose forte is search engine, the site reliability engineer becomes a key person to ensure its search pages are running smoothly.

Google site reliability engineers mainly use the technical analysis to assess the scalability and reliability of products or infrastructure. Since it’s a challenging job that has been integrated into several positions, including systems engineer, release engineer, Linux and Windows system administrator, and technical program manager, no wonder these guys are paid in this number.
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