Senior Staff Network Engineer, Google Global Infrastructure

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Staff Network Engineer with 15+ years of experience in network architecture and distributed routing systems. You will drive core routing, BGP/IS-IS/MPLS, and SRv6 developments across large-scale environments.

Responsibilities include optimizing NPU forwarding pipelines, advancing SDN interfaces, and designing high-throughput, secure networks. Candidates must have deep expertise with Broadcom SDKs and SAI implementations and be ready for in-person

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in network architecture or distributed routing systems.
• Experience with core routing and traffic engineering protocols in hyperscale networks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with silicon vendors to optimize NPU forwarding pipelines and ECMP.
• Advance routing and SDN protocols including BGP, IS-IS, SRv6, MPLS and programmatic APIs.
• Design high-throughput tunneling and line-rate encryption, manage tables and telemetry.
• Architect and deploy disaggregated AI WAN fabrics and NOS abstractions.
• Shape multi-year hardware and silicon roadmaps for high-scale platforms.

Skills

BGP

IS-IS

MPLS

SRv6

OpenConfig

gNMI

gRIBI

P4Runtime

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Broadcom SDKs

SAI implementations

High-speed SerDes

Job description

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in network architecture, router platform engineering, NPU/ASIC forwarding design, or distributed routing systems.
• Experience with core routing and traffic engineering protocols used in hyperscale networks, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), and modern SDN/management interfaces (e.g., OpenConfig, gNMI, gRIBI, or P4Runtime).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience integrating or debugging Broadcom, Silicon One, or comparable switch ASIC SDKs and SAI implementations.
• Experience with high-speed SerDes, physical-layer interface architectures, and signal integrity considerations for board- and system-level routing designs.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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. 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.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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. 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: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Partner with silicon vendors to optimize NPU forwarding pipelines, evaluating trade-offs in VoQ scheduling, table partitioning, FIB compression, and high-scale ECMP/WCMP.
• Advance large-scale routing and SDN protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, Segment Routing (SRv6), MPLS, and programmatic APIs like gRIBI and P4Runtime.
• Design high-throughput tunneling and line-rate encryption (MACsec, IPsec), managing match-action tables and telemetry while mitigating parser limits and expansion overhead.
• Architect and deploy innovative network structures such as disaggregated AI WAN fabrics and commoditized NOS abstractions that remove vendor constraints.
• Shape multi-year hardware, silicon, and system roadmaps for high-scale, air- and liquid-cooled platforms across Core and Edge networks.

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