Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer – Scale & SDN

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

Job summary

Google's Sunnyvale-based team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance network infrastructure. You will design, develop, test, and deploy scalable switch software powering data-center networks and contribute to AI networking initiatives.

The role demands experience with large-scale distributed systems, networking stacks (L2/L3/ACL), SDN, and mentoring junior engineers. In-person interviews are typically required, with a competitive package including equity, bonus targets, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience with networking (L2/L3/ACL protocol layers) and SDN.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve switch software.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Manage scalability and performance tuning of large-scale networks.
• 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.

Skills

Software development

Networking

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google's Sunnyvale-based team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance network infrastructure. You will design, develop, test, and deploy scalable switch software powering data-center networks and contribute to AI networking initiatives.

The role demands experience with large-scale distributed systems, networking stacks (L2/L3/ACL), SDN, and mentoring junior engineers. In-person interviews are typically required, with a competitive package including equity, bonus targets, and