Senior Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Google
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesFull-time$174,000–$252,000Posted Sep 10, 2026

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages.

  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,

and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed

systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or

hardware architecture.

  • Experience with networking (L2/L3/ACLprotocol layers) and SDN.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
  • Knowledge of Linux user space development and multi-threading development.

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.

Join a high-performing, talented team responsible for the network operating

system powering Google's data center infrastructure. Contribute to projects

enabling AI networking and high-performance fabrics for TPU and GPU workloads.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the

hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our

computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom

hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and

build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful

computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way

through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the

machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of

Google users.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve switch software.
  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
  • Manage scalability and performance tuning of large-scale networks.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the

sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations

and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve switch software.
  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
  • Manage scalability and performance tuning of large-scale networks.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks.

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target
  • equity
  • benefits

Skills mentioned

Distributed SystemsSystem DesignDebuggingPerformance OptimizationSoftware TestingLinuxConcurrencyMultithreadingTCP/IPSystems Engineering

About Google

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