Senior Staff Software Engineer, Unified Traffic Engineering, Infrastructure

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

3d•$262,000 - $364,000

About The Position

Google’s software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. Engineers work on projects critical to Google, with opportunities to move between teams and projects as the business evolves. The role calls for versatility, leadership, and enthusiasm for solving problems across the full stack. Unified Traffic Engineering (UTE) optimizes routing and traffic load balancing across Google’s global networks, including B4 and the Google Global Network (GGN). Its systems deliver every network flow for Google and Google Cloud Platform end-to-end. The team aims to guarantee four nines of network availability through fault-tolerant, outage-free designs; deliver deterministic, policy-compliant, latency-bounded packet forwarding; and reduce per-byte costs through traffic engineering algorithms integrated with capacity planning. The AI and Infrastructure team delivers AI and infrastructure capabilities at scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity for Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and Google users worldwide. Its work supports AI models, global services, developer platforms, and areas including TPUs, Vertex AI, Google Global Networking, data center operations, and systems research. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The listed US compensation is $262,000–$364,000 USD, plus a 25% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience programming in C++.
5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing and launching software products.
Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
Experience with performance optimization of software systems, debugging complex distributed software systems, designing and implementing large-scale real-time software systems, software-defined networking, and network architecture design.

Responsibilities

Set the technical strategy and define the long-term software architecture for Google’s next-generation Unified Traffic Engineering systems.
Design, implement, and scale complex, highly available solver algorithms and high-concurrency network programming infrastructure.
Drive strategic alignment and collaborate with partner network teams, hardware teams, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to safely ship global product releases.
Act as a domain expert and mentor for software engineers, raising engineering excellence, system safety, and code health across the organization.