Staff Software Engineer, Network Management, Distributed Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  
• 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

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.

Our mission is to design and deploy innovative software solutions to remove complexity from network management tasks. Our networks support highly available, planetary scale distributed systems with billions of users. We constantly evolve our networks to meet the requirements of and create opportunities for new and better Google products, especially the growing Google Cloud offerings.

We are building distributed systems infrastructure that enables safe and reliable network management automation via always safe and always available API abstractions. Our goal is to make our infrastructure do to network management automation what self driving cars are striving to do for transportation.

This is a position for a TLM role on a critical back end infrastructure team. Candidates are or will be interested in growing into a TLM role.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects by working with cross-functional teams and users to design and build distributed software solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale network management software and infrastructure.
  
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers, fostering alignment and clarity across multiple teams on project goals and outcomes.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables while facilitating the evolution of network management infrastructure to meet growing network needs.
• Develop a long-term goals for the product area, identifying ways to evolve network infrastructure and software solutions.