Software Engineering Manager, SDN Control, Data Center Networks

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the SDN Core team, owning the framework and applications for Orion SDN infrastructure. You will guide multiple teams across locations, manage a sizable product budget, and oversee deployment of large-scale projects globally.

The role combines technical leadership with people management, defining goals, and driving collaboration across Networking Infrastructure and Cloud to support high-availability networking capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum: a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years leading large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 2 years in people management or team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers for SDN framework, applications and tools at scale.
• Collaborate with product managers and PMOs on networking applications for Google data centers.
• Define goals and long-term strategy for the team and improvements to SDN infrastructure.
• Drive end-to-end development: requirements, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Mentor engineers, aligning career goals with project priorities.

Skills

Software leadership

Distributed systems

Large-scale infra

People management

Compute architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

OpenFlow

P4

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in distributed, microservices based software development.
• Experience with some combination of: Formal Methods/Verification, SDN match-action forwarding paradigm (e.g. OpenFlow or P4).

About the job:

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

You will join the team managing one of the world's most critical network footprints and contribute to the data center network powering all Google services and Google Cloud.
As part of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Core team, you will own the framework, components, and applications for Google’s Orion SDN infrastructure. You’ll help define how over 200 developers build networking products, including high-bandwidth interconnects and WAN connectivity. You will support a massive, global distributed system to ensure maximum availability.
In this role, you will work on the world’s largest SDN deployment, driving innovations in convergence, capacity, security, and low-latency performance.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team software engineers responsible for developing the SDN framework, applications and tools to enable various networking innovations and deployments at scale.
• Collaborate across Networking Infrastructure and Cloud with product managers, technical program managers, and other software engineer managers on applications built for the Google data center.
• Define a goal and long-term strategy for the team, identifying, recommending, and executing improvements to SDN Infrastructure.
• Drive all aspects of development including requirements definition, design, implementation, unit testing, and integration, building flexible technology to deliver highly-available, easily-evolvable networking infrastructure, while upholding high standards in Product Excellence and developing infrastructure to support large scale system operations.
• Mentor individual engineers focusing on alignment of long-term career goals to project priorities and business objectives.