Google – Backbone Network Engineer, Technical Infrastructure

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with TCP/IP foundations and routing protocols (e.g., EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS).
Experience with coding in Python.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience with networking technologies/concepts such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow.
Experience with system design.
Experience in building software applications in the networking domain.
Experience in network automation and bootstrapping processes.
Ability to speak and write in English fluently.
About the job
Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google’s complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.

Google’s network engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Google Network Infrastructure team works on the systems to deliver compute and storage not available anywhere else through tightly-coupled, highly available network infrastructure. Our Google Wide Area Network (gWAN) Build and Safety team plans, designs and builds Google’s global private WAN network. In this role, you will deliver the networking that enables all Google’s technical infrastructure.

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
Analyze the short and long term growth needs, plan for the future, and demand and ensure system scales to needed growth envelope.
Engage in inception, design, qualification, and validation of new technologies, and ensure new technologies fit the need and demand of the users, are deployable at scale, and are safely operable.
Scale network systems sustainably through automation, and evolve them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Analyze inefficiencies and complexity, and drive improvements in process as well as automation and system design.
Partner with Google’s internal groups and design network infrastructure which meets their networking requirements.