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.

The Global Network Edge (GNE) team is responsible for the network that connects Goolgle's cloud customers directly to our Cloud Networking and other GCP offerings, as well as individual users globally to Google's services such as Gmail, Search, and YouTube through the Google backbone. GNE team owns the entire life-cycle of new products and technologies being introduced into Google Global Network's edge domain - conceptualizing, prototyping, developing, automation and testing, executing the pilot, rolling out to the network, making it generally available, supporting the network/design in its deployed state. The team focuses on the holistic health of the customer facing edge network - delivering the edge as a modular component of GGN's network planning and deployment pipelines.

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

• Build innovative and scalable Software Defined Network control plane systems for Google's Global Network Edge, to efficiently and reliably control Google's Edge network.

• Build software to interface with global Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers and bandwidth management systems, translating high-level network intent into device configurations using industry-standard protocols like gRIBI, gNMI, and RPCs.

• Design and implement hardware abstraction layers and on-device agents and distributed software frameworks to enable programmable edge networking for AI/ML clusters.

• Design, and implement scalable control plane networking features, including software architecture evolution, admission control and bandwidth enforcement, network programming coordination and management, and availability improving mechanisms.

• Lead the testing strategy by implementing rigorous unit and component tests using network emulation tools. Validate features virtually to significantly reduce New Product Introduction cycle times and ensure high reliability.

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 large-scale distributed systems.

• 3 years of experience with testing.

• 2 years of experience with system design.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.

• 3 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

• 3 years of experience with software-defined networking.

• 2 years of experience with network design.