Senior Software Engineer, Global Network Technologies

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, Python, Objective C, JavaScript, or Go.
• Experience in computer science, data structures, algorithms and software design.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, network architecture, software-defined networking, networking protocols, network management systems.
  
  

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.

Network Insights is part of the Global Network Technologies (GNT) team, which develops the systems, technologies and tools to support Google's global network, connecting our data centers and cloud regions to each other and to our users.

Network Insights provides software to help our users understand and analyze huge volumes of networking data, helping users pick out signals from noise, understand and prevent outages, and improve the quality and reliability of our network for all of Google and Google's users.

The team’s mission is to minimize the impact of network impairments on Google’s customers, both internal and external ones. In order to do this the team analyzes network signals, identifying anomalies, and automatically root-causing outages. This role requires both software skills, as well as a data-investigative mindset.

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

• Design software to customer specifications or requirements, and discuss and align these designs wtih peers and stakeholders.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Understand data and its impacts on the software design and investigate unusual data.
• Own technical aspects of software solution delivery of smaller-sized projects in conjunction with the immediate team.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .