Senior Staff SWE, AI-Driven Traffic Engineering

Google; United States; On-site; USD 262,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Unified Traffic Engineering, based in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead design and implementation of complex, real-time traffic engineering systems and collaborate across teams to deliver high-availability networking solutions.

Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale software, and partnering with SREs to ship releases while optimizing for performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Build next-generation traffic engineering functionality and ship product releases with SREs.

Skills

C++

Design & Architecture

AI Integration

Distributed Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Large-scale systems

Networking

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Unified Traffic Engineering, based in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead design and implementation of complex, real-time traffic engineering systems and collaborate across teams to deliver high-availability networking solutions.

Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale software, and partnering with SREs to ship releases while optimizing for performance and reliability.