Staff Software Engineer: AI Networking & Large-Scale Infra

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

Job summary

Google seeks a software engineer to design and operate switch software powering its data centers and AI infrastructure. You will help build scalable, high-performance networks and collaborate across teams.

You will lead projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to TPUs, GPUs, and Google Cloud networking initiatives, with interviews typically conducted in person. The role requires extensive C++ experience and distributed systems expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of C++ programming experience.
• 5 years building large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience launching software products.
• Experience in problem management and network design.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Scale and performance tuning of a large-scale network.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve switch software.
• Work on projects enabling AI networking infrastructure for TPUs and GPUs.

Skills

C++ programming

Large-scale systems

Network design

Problem solving

Infrastructure development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Linux

SDN

Job description

Google seeks a software engineer to design and operate switch software powering its data centers and AI infrastructure. You will help build scalable, high-performance networks and collaborate across teams.

You will lead projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to TPUs, GPUs, and Google Cloud networking initiatives, with interviews typically conducted in person. The role requires extensive C++ experience and distributed systems expertise.