Software Engineer, Global Network Edge

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

5d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

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