Production Network Engineer — Scale, Automation & Impact

Google; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 114,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Health, vision, dental

Job summary

Google’s Community Engineering team in Little Rock seeks a Production Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate a robust production network, ensuring reliability, performance, and security for data center and user traffic. You will work at the interface between data centers and end users, collaborating across teams to build and maintain core network infrastructure.

The role emphasizes building scalable, automated solutions with strong routing protocol expertise and programming skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of IP networking experience in manufacturing or similar environment.
• Hands-on with routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS.
• Programming experience in C, C++, Go, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, validate, deploy, operate, and optimize network infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.
• Scale architecture through automation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and propose enhancements.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for internal application teams' network needs.
• Lead engineering design and solution development for Google’s production network.

Skills

IP networking

BGP

OSPF

IS-IS

MPLS

Programming (C/C++/Go/Python)

Tools

Juniper

Cisco

Arista

Nokia

Job description

Google’s Community Engineering team in Little Rock seeks a Production Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate a robust production network, ensuring reliability, performance, and security for data center and user traffic. You will work at the interface between data centers and end users, collaborating across teams to build and maintain core network infrastructure.

The role emphasizes building scalable, automated solutions with strong routing protocol expertise and programming skills.