Senior Cloud Networking Engineer — Kubernetes & GDC

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Google Cloud Kubernetes Networking. You will contribute to scalable networking features in GKE/GDC and collaborate with product teams to drive connectivity across multi‑cloud environments.

Ideal candidates have strong experience in Go/C/Python, distributed systems, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, with a focus on real‑world networking challenges and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Go, C or Python.
• 5 years of experience with network architectures, protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP), and technologies.
• 5 years of experience with network design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• 3 years of experience with developing large‑scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience with Cloud compute platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Cloud Functions).

Responsibilities

• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Design and implement new networking features to enable AI/ML workloads in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) platforms. Virtualization solutions for Container/VM workloads running on Kubernetes platforms.
• Design and develop network connectivity solution for hybrid/multi cloud, involving data plane and control plane elements while helping external Customers who hit issues in production clusters.
• Engage with the open source community to help shape the direction of networking in Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

C

Python

Network architectures

Networking protocols

Distributed systems

Cloud compute platforms

Kubernetes networking

eBPF

OpenvSwitch

Linux kernel networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

eBPF

OpenvSwitch

Cloud Functions

Job description

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Google Cloud Kubernetes Networking. You will contribute to scalable networking features in GKE/GDC and collaborate with product teams to drive connectivity across multi‑cloud environments.

Ideal candidates have strong experience in Go/C/Python, distributed systems, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, with a focus on real‑world networking challenges and performance optimization.