Lead Network Engineering Manager, Core & Optical Transport

Google Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

GFiber, an Alphabet company, is seeking a Network Engineering Manager to lead the Core & Optical Transport team, supervising a nationwide multi-terabit backbone with emphasis on reliability, capacity planning, observability, and automation. You will remain hands-on in design and code while guiding a small team of engineers toward scalable solutions.

You will set strategic direction, balance priorities across teams, and drive the development of robust engineering goals to meet evolving

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years building large-scale infrastructure and networks with leadership.
• Backbone experience across multi-vendor platforms (Juniper, Nokia, Cisco).
• Optical transport design and operation of DWDM metro/long-haul networks.
• Software engineering for automation in Go and/or Python.
• Experience with modern observability and telemetry pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and review network designs to ensure best practices and resolve challenges.
• Drive observability strategy and telemetry pipelines and tooling.
• Plan and engineer metro and long-haul optical transport: capacity growth and DWDM modernization.
• Set and communicate team priorities aligned with organizational goals.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on level and role.
• Develop long-term technical goals and roadmap for the team.

Skills

Network engineering

Multi-vendor backbone

Go/Python programming

Observability/telemetry

Capacity planning

DWDM/ optical transport

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Juniper

Nokia

Cisco

DWDM

gNMI/Telemetry

Job description

GFiber, an Alphabet company, is seeking a Network Engineering Manager to lead the Core & Optical Transport team, supervising a nationwide multi-terabit backbone with emphasis on reliability, capacity planning, observability, and automation. You will remain hands-on in design and code while guiding a small team of engineers toward scalable solutions.

You will set strategic direction, balance priorities across teams, and drive the development of robust engineering goals to meet evolving