Staff Network Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud

About the Role

Google's Network Engineering team operates a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep systems running smoothly. You ensure network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components, and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges requiring innovation with an evolving set of technologies.

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is designed as a converged hardware and software solution for customers (Public Sector, Enterprise, Telco, Retail). GDC includes dedicated hardware, network fabric, operating systems, and a curated set of Google Cloud services, providing a consistent cloud experience in tightly controlled environments. GDC network fabric consists of multiple layers including physical network, overlay network, host, and Kubernetes network. GDC connected (GDCc) is a hardware and software product that brings Google Cloud to customer edge environments without compromising on latency or connectivity.

The AI and Infrastructure team empowers Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. The team is the driving force behind innovations, empowering development of AI models, delivering computing power to global services, and providing platforms that enable developers to build the future.

Responsibilities

• Drive impact for GDC across a combination of large project leadership, or solving very deep and ambiguous technical problems.
• Provide deep insight and efficient resolution of complex operational issues that may arise in production, and follow that up with design and development of processes to ensure those issues don't re-occur.
• Anticipate scaling bottlenecks, software inefficiencies or shifts in usage, improve network planning and quantitative models, simplify and standardize existing solutions, increase availability and reliability, or make data-driven optimizations and adjustments.
• Coordinate or lead efforts involving multiple teams organizations across multiple medium-large projects in a collaborative manner.
• Drive significant improvements in performance of a team through leadership, mentorship, and application of good engineering principles.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with network routing protocols, design and troubleshooting, with network equipment providers.
• Experience with planning and designing networks (e.g., multiple sites, multiple products, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with developing performance infrastructure, distributed systems, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as C++, Go, or Python.
• Experience with data center Networking with in-depth knowledge of routing protocols and overlay networks such as EVPN-VXLAN and IPv6.
• Proficiency in coding, scripting, networking system health, diagnosis and resolution, network and software testing.

Pay

US: $176,000 - $256,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits