Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Network Connectivity Gateway

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

4d•$207,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Google is seeking a software engineer to work on the Network Connectivity Gateway (NCG) data plane. The role involves defining its technical strategy, architecture, and long-term roadmap across the Google Cloud products it supports, and designing, building, and delivering data plane features from design through launch. The engineer will improve performance, scalability, and reliability and collaborate with product management, control plane, SRE, and partner teams to define requirements and deliver integrations. The role also includes reviewing designs and code and setting standards for engineering quality, testing, and operational excellence. Google software engineers develop technologies and products that operate at massive scale. Engineers manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables and design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. Google Cloud provides enterprise-grade solutions and tools to customers in more than 200 countries and territories.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks.
5 years of experience with software design, system architecture, and packet forwarding architecture.
Experience with Linux kernel internals, user space networking, and low-latency networking.
Experience providing technical leadership on projects.

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.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
Experience with Linux kernel networking (e.g., eBPF, XDP) or kernel-bypass frameworks (e.g., DPDK, Netmap).
Experience with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Virtual Routing and Forwarding, and routing in multi-region or multi-tenant cloud environments.
Experience with overlay and tunneling protocols (e.g., GENEVE, VXLAN, IPsec).

Responsibilities

Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy, architecture, and long-term roadmap for the NCG data plane across all Google Cloud products it supports.
Design, build, and deliver new data plane features from design through launch.
Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the NCG data plane.
Collaborate with product management, control plane, SRE, and partner teams to define requirements and deliver integrations.
Review designs and code, and set engineering standards for quality, testing, and operational excellence.
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.