Senior Staff Network Engineer, Google Global Infrastructure

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • $222,000 - $308,000

About The Position

Google Cloud is seeking a Senior Staff Network Engineer to work on software and infrastructure technologies that support how users and organizations connect and use information. The role focuses on network architecture, routing systems, network silicon and NPU forwarding, and software-defined networking at hyperscale. The engineer will work on projects critical to Google Cloud and is expected to anticipate customer needs, take ownership, innovate, demonstrate leadership, and address new technical challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in network architecture, router platform engineering, NPU/ASIC forwarding design, or distributed routing systems.
• Experience with core routing and traffic engineering protocols used in hyperscale networks, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), and modern SDN/management interfaces such as OpenConfig, gNMI, gRIBI, or P4Runtime.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating or debugging Broadcom, Silicon One, or comparable switch ASIC SDKs and SAI implementations.
• Experience with high-speed SerDes, physical-layer interface architectures, and signal integrity considerations for board- and system-level routing designs.

Responsibilities

• Partner with silicon vendors to optimize NPU forwarding pipelines, evaluating trade-offs in VoQ scheduling, table partitioning, FIB compression, and high-scale ECMP/WCMP.
• Advance large-scale routing and SDN protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, Segment Routing (SRv6), MPLS, and programmatic APIs such as gRIBI and P4Runtime.
• Design high-throughput tunneling and line-rate encryption using MACsec and IPsec; manage match-action tables and telemetry while mitigating parser limits and expansion overhead.
• Architect and deploy network structures such as disaggregated AI WAN fabrics and commoditized NOS abstractions that remove vendor constraints.
• Shape multi-year hardware, silicon, and system roadmaps for high-scale, air- and liquid-cooled platforms across Core and Edge networks.

Benefits

• 25% bonus target
• Equity
• Benefits are offered; specific benefits are available via the linked Google benefits page.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior