Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development in C++ programming language, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
- 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
- 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience debugging complex, distributed software systems.
- Experience working on performance optimization of software systems.
- Understanding of Internet routing technologies and router/switch telemetry.
- Understanding of internet peering/routing topologies (e.g., Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)).
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. 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’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. 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 team is responsible for the network that connects Goolgle's cloud customers directly to our Cloud Networking and other Google Cloud Platform offerings, as well as individual users globally to Google's services such as Gmail, Search, and Youtube through the Google backbone.
From startups building their first app to billion-user consumer companies crunching big data, the Google Cloud Platform gives developers and businesses the most advanced data and analytics solution on the market, along with Google's secure, high performance infrastructure. Our team of technical account managers and software engineers work with partners across all functions to develop solutions that harness Google's planet-wide platform to solve the world's most challenging problems.
Responsibilities
- Build innovative and scalable Software Defined Network control plane systems for Google's Global Network Edge.
- Design, implement and qualify highly scalable control plane networking features, including software architecture evolution, admission control and bandwidth enforcement, network programming coordination and management, and availability improving mechanisms.
- Work closely with other Global Network Edge team members, test engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to ship product releases.
