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Staff Software Engineer, Google SDN Control plane

Google · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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.

The team provides the most scalable and reliable SDN Production Infrastructure for Google.

Orion, the Software Defined Networking (SDN) brain that powers Google's data center and wide-area networks within the broader Network Infrastructure group. The team mission is to deliver a holistic infrastructure to run Orion and improve Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) scalability. This mission is cross-functional, touching Orion's own design, the systems that are used for management (e.g., config push) as well as the software stacks that Orion relies on (e.g., Chubby, Network Computing System (NCS) machines). The Team is currently focused on Rollouts, NCS Resource optimisation, gSSD in NCS, Orion Log Collection, Monitoring, Orion Core Apps.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.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

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.
  • 3 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.

Software pay context

Based on 7,680 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $159K/year, with most offers between $125K and $200K (10th–90th percentile: $102K–$235K).

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