Senior Software Engineer, Google Cloud Kubernetes Networking

About the role

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. 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.

Responsibilities

• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Design and implement new networking features to enable AI/ML workloads in GDC platforms.
• Design and develop network connectivity solutions for hybrid/multi cloud, involving data plane and control plane elements while helping external customers who hit issues in production clusters.
• Engage with the open source community to help shape the direction of networking in Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Go, C or Python.
• 5 years of experience with network architectures, protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP), and technologies.
• 5 years of experience with network design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience with Cloud compute platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Cloud Functions).

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Compute, Networking and Storage modules in Linux Kernels, CPU scheduling, resource allocation, cgroups, RTOS, RCU.
• Knowledge of core networking concepts (various layers of networking IPv4, IPv6, iptables, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS) and Knowledge of Networking components at kernel-level on Windows (optional) and Linux OSs.

Skills

• Solid networking knowledge and understanding of how networking powers virtualized environments.
• Some familiarity with Kubernetes Networking, getting exposure to the flexibility and popularity of eBPF, OpenvSwitch frameworks to enable changing development on top-notch networking features as well as the complex architecture of GDC platform.

Benefits

• Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits