Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Next Generation Firewall Enterprise

Google; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Cloud Next Generation Firewall Enterprise in the Raleigh area. The role focuses on building next-gen firewall capabilities, securing workloads at scale, and delivering reliable cloud networking security solutions.

Candidates should have strong distributed systems experience and proficiency in Go or Python. US compensation ranges from $174,000 to $252,000 per year, with a 15% bonus target plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in Go or Python, or 1 year with advanced degree.
• 5 years building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage expertise.
• 5 years designing and managing distributed software systems and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code and review peers for quality, style, testing, and efficiency.
• Contribute to documentation and adapt content to product updates and user feedback.
• Triage issues and debug to assess impact on hardware, network, or service operations.
• Implement high-quality solutions using Go, C++, Python, and more.
• Design reliable, performant solutions for Cloud Networking Security.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD

Tools

PCAP analysis

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Next Generation Firewall Enterprise

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Golang or Python), or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 5 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience building and managing distributed software systems and infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms in either an academic or industry setting.
• Experience in designing and building distributed systems, and ability to adapt to diagnosing network issues using debugging tools (e.g., PCAP analysis).
• Experience in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.
• Knowledge of Google technologies and infrastructure including networking, security, corporate systems and infrastructure, system administration and operations, and the software development lifecycle.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

We are building the next gen firewall product that adds Layer 7 security for intrusion prevention and detection of threats and malicious attacks. We are working on the next set of problems and building out the capabilities necessary to ensure that our customers have the most reliable, performant, and secure environment in which to run their workloads.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• 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.
• Implement high-quality solutions using Go, C++, Python, and more.
• Design reliable and performant solutions for Cloud Networking Security intrusion prevention and detection products.

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