Senior Infrastructure Architect & Technical Lead (Networking)

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead data plane design across Google Cloud. You will help shape multi-year architecture, drive performance, and scale infrastructure for massive workloads.

Strong background in distributed systems and networking is required, with in-person interviews as part of the process. Compensation includes equity and a 20% bonus target.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks.
• 5 years of experience with software design, system architecture, and packet forwarding architecture.
• Experience with Linux kernel internals, user space networking, and low-latency networking.
• Experience providing technical leadership on projects.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy, architecture, and long-term roadmap for the NCG data plane across all Google Cloud products it supports.
• Design, build, and deliver new data plane features from design through laun.
• Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the NCG data plane.
• Collaborate with product management, control plane, SRE, and partner teams to define requirements and deliver integrations.
• Review designs and code, and set engineering standards for quality, testing, and operational excellence.

Skills

Large-scale infra

Distributed systems

Software design

System architecture

Networking

Technical leadership

Linux kernel internals

Low-latency networking

eBPF/XDP

DPDK/Netmap

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

eBPF

XDP

DPDK

Netmap

BGP/VRF routing

Job description

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead data plane design across Google Cloud. You will help shape multi-year architecture, drive performance, and scale infrastructure for massive workloads.

Strong background in distributed systems and networking is required, with in-person interviews as part of the process. Compensation includes equity and a 20% bonus target.