Senior Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

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

Senior Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Google

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum 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/ACLprotocol layers) and SDN.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Knowledge of Linux user space development and multi-threading development.

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.

Join a high-performing, talented team responsible for the network operating system powering Google's data center infrastructure. Contribute to projects enabling AI networking and high-performance fabrics for TPU and GPU workloads.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.

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

• 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.

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