Senior Software Engineer, GGN WAN Forms

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software development using one or more general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, C++, Python, Java).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with development in a Linux/Unix environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with large scale software systems (scalability, reliability, distributed systems).
• Understanding of computer networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP).
• Familiarity with Google remote procedure call (gRPC) and Protocol Buffers.
• Passion to learn and collaborate with other geographically distributed teams.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

Part of Google’s Global Networking and Infrastructure (GGN&I) organization, the Global Network Technologies (GNT) team builds systems, technologies, and tools supporting the global network that connects data centers, cloud regions, and users worldwide.

Within GNT, the WANForms team acts as a virtual vendor to GGN. It delivers WAN building blocks featuring normalized read, write, and operate APIs abstracted across hardware and silicon from top networking vendors. WANForms ensures these blocks integrate seamlessly with Google’s control, management, and monitoring ecosystems. By offering pre-qualified devices with base networking functions ready for hardware refreshes or new projects, WANForms speeds up new product introductions.

Responsibilities

• Be an subject-matter expert (SME) on networking features, own end to end from design definition, collaborate on standardization across vendors, implementation to verification.
• Analyze and solve technical problems within our software systems, with guidance from senior engineers as needed. Be an equal partner in framing problems and solutions. Being open-minded, and considering the problem from many perspectives.
• Write high-quality, well-tested, maintainable, and well-documented code. Participate in code reviews to ensure software quality and share knowledge.
• Work effectively with team members and partner teams to understand requirements, contribute to technical solutions, and deliver features.
• Develop an understanding of the networking domain and technologies relevant to the team's goals.