Staff Network Engineer, Cloud Networking

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in the networking domain with physical network devices and overlay virtual networks.
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching networking software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• 3 years of experience in network design and troubleshooting of network deployments.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in working with large scale distributed systems and related network infrastructure.
  
• Experience with cloud technologies, such as Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience running high growth production workloads or production services at scale.
  
• Experience managing software engineering teams.
  
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with customers and influence partners.
  
• Excellent problem-solving and investigative skills.
  

About the job

Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on key projects helping in onboarding customers. Work with other engineers to troubleshoot and resolve network issues.
• Build network specific expertise in the team and serve as an expert providing consultation to other Engineering and support teams working in cloud networking areas.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Improve visibility into the network performance, availability and traffic patterns via metrics, alerting and engineering analysis.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.