Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Virtual Networking

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Virtual Networking

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 testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience with networking technologies and building high-performance packet processing applications.
• Experience with building large-scale distributed systems, other cloud service infra and cluster management technologies.

About the job

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. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Our team is not just maintaining the status quo. We're innovators delivering novel capabilities such as SDN Cloud multicast, stateful session stores, ultra low latency networking, packet capture/mirroring and telemetry. Our team is growing rapidly, and with you on board, it will grow even stronger. As we deliver these key projects, you'll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of Google's network. Your ideas and expertise will directly influence how we build and evolve the infrastructure that powers everything at Google.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Create the United States Postal Service (USPS) engine, the heart of our data path application.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies. Own and lead customers with visible cloud multicast capabilities.
  
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency). Contribute to a project with huge potential for cloud networking.
  
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  
• 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.
  

Experience Level

Senior Level