Senior Staff Software Engineer, Unified Traffic Engineering, Infrastructure

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching

software products.

• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related

technical field.

• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams

and setting technical direction.

• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving

cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

• Experience with Performance optimization of software systems, debugging

complex, distributed software systems, designing and implementing

large-scale, real-time software systems. Software-defined networking and

Network architecture design.

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.

Unified Traffic Engineering (UTE) is responsible for optimized routing and

traffic load balancing across Google's global networks, including B4 and the

Google Global Network (GGN). Network traffic engineering is a critical

infrastructure service; our systems deliver every network flow for Google and

GCP end-to-end.

Our core goals include: guaranteeing four nines of network availability through

fault-tolerant, outage-free system designs, delivering deterministic,

policy-compliant, and latency-bounded packet forwarding. Reducing per-byte costs

via novel traffic engineering algorithms and tight integration with capacity

planning.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google

customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and

Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our

customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users

worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering

the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing

power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable

developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping

the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the

development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking,

Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Set the technical strategy and define the long-term software architecture for

Google's next-generation Unified Traffic Engineering systems.

• Design, implement, and scale complex, highly available solver algorithms and

high-concurrency network programming infrastructure.

• Drive strategic alignment and collaborate deeply with partner network teams,

hardware teams, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to safely ship global

product releases.

• Act as a domain expert and mentor for a team of talented software engineers,

raising the bar for engineering excellence, system safety, and code health

across the organization.