Senior Cloud Networking Architect — Equity + Bonus

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas and can work across the full stack on high-scale networking projects in Sunnyvale.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and education. US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in network architecture, router platform engineering, NPU/ASIC forwarding design, or distributed routing systems.
• Experience with core routing and traffic engineering protocols used in hyperscale networks, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), and modern SDN/management interfaces (e.g., OpenConfig, gNMI, gRIBI, or P4Runtime).

Responsibilities

• Partner with silicon vendors to optimize NPU forwarding pipelines, evaluating trade-offs in VoQ scheduling, table partitioning, FIB compression, and high-scale ECMP/WCMP.
• Advance large-scale routing and SDN protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, Segment Routing (SRv6), MPLS, and programmatic APIs like gRIBI and P4Runtime.
• Design high-throughput tunneling and line-rate encryption (MACsec, IPsec), managing match-action tables and telemetry while mitigating parser limits and expansion overhead.
• Architect and deploy innovative network structures such as disaggregated AI WAN fabrics and commoditized NOS abstractions that remove vendor constraints.
• Shape multi-year hardware, silicon, and system roadmaps for high-scale, air- and liquid-cooled platforms across Core and Edge networks.

Skills

Network architecture

Router platform engineering

NPU/ASIC forwarding design

Distributed routing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE or related field

Tools

Broadcom SDKs

SAI implementations

Silicon One SDK

Job description

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas and can work across the full stack on high-scale networking projects in Sunnyvale.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and education. US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits.