Senior Software Engineer, Google Global Infrastructure, Networking
Sunnyvale, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience with virtualization.
- 3 years of experience with software architecture.
- 2 years of experience with cloud compute platform, Kubernetes.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience in coding with Go.
- 3 years of experience with network virtualization.
- 3 years of experience with testing.
About the job
The Google Global Network (GGN) is the world’s largest network, defined by a unique architecture that ensures global reliability, speed, and hardware efficiency. Spanning the Edge network, the B2 backbone (Edge-to-Data-Center), and the B4 backbone (Data-Center-to-Data-Center), our infrastructure presents massive-scale engineering issues that require sophisticated, well-tested network management services and specialized device validation.Managing a network of this magnitude is high-stakes; even minor software regressions can impact global connectivity. The GGN Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team is the backbone of this reliability. We provide the comprehensive tools and physical infrastructure that empower all of GGN Engineering to test network management software and hardware effectively. Beyond infrastructure, we partner with network service owners to architect end-to-end testing strategies, from functional and integration testing to full-scale solution and staging environments.
In this role, you will ensure that the software managing Google's global traffic is scalable and validated against the highest standards of engineering excellence.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + 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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Technical Lead for the emulation team, architecting and driving the implementation of the GGN virtualization infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes to step-functionally accelerate testing and development cycles and reduce physical lab dependencies.
- Provide high-level technical leadership to emulation engineers; define design and implementation strategies, conduct architectural reviews, and personally resolve the team's most complex technical bottlenecks.
- Evaluate and integrate Google technologies and cloud-native patterns to modernize the GGN EngProd stack and maintain an edge in infrastructure productivity.
- Advocate and institutionalize industry-best practices in automated testing, code health, and agile methodologies, elevating the engineering standards across the broader organization.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.