Software Engineer III, Unified Traffic Engineering, Infrastructure

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience with C++.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience with performance optimization of software systems.
• Experience with debugging distributed software systems.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale, real-time software systems.
• Experience with network architecture design, and software-defined networking.

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 is in charge of optimized routing and traffic load balancing for Google's global networks. Network traffic engineering is a critical infrastructure service for Google. Our systems and infrastructure are responsible for delivering every network flow for Google and Google Cloud Platform services end-to-end. Any design flaw in our service has the potential to cause a global outage leading to violations of the promised network availability, damaging user satisfaction and trust for Google services and Google cloud customers.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• 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.
• Build next generation traffic engineering functionality. Design, implement and qualify new networking features, including software architecture evolution, new solver algorithms, network programming coordination/management, and availability, improving mechanisms.
• Work closely with other Unified Traffic Engineering team members, test engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to ship our product releases.