Software Engineering Manager, SDN Control, Data Center Networks

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

A leading tech company in California seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead teams in developing SDN frameworks and applications for their data centers. You will guide engineers, define strategies, and ensure the operational excellence of large-scale networking solutions. With a focus on collaboration and technical leadership, you will play a pivotal role in managing critical networking innovations. This full-time position offers a competitive salary range between $207,000 and $300,000 plus bonus and equity.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with large-scale infrastructure or networks.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers developing SDN framework.
• Collaborate on applications for Google data center.
• Define long-term strategy for the team.

Skills

Leadership

Software development

Technical expertise

Distributed systems

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master's degree or PhD

Job description

Software Engineering Manager, SDN Control, Data Center Networks

corporate_fare Google place Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Requirements

• 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 US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.