Senior Software Engineer, SDN, Control Plane
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
About the job
Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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 Orion Core team owns the framework and key components in Google's SDN network infrastructure. This means we define how developers build networking products in Google, for instance high bandwidth interconnects in our data centers or WAN connectivity. We are a software team and Orion in a large distributed system that has to be highly available and high performance. Orion is deployed across the globe with over thousands of application instances running right now.
Our team's code is mainly written in C++, running on low dependency borg, using infrastructure like Chubby, Stubby and Spanner. We also maintain infrastructure and tooling in Borg using a wide variety of google3 infrastructure and services.
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
- Develop and maintain the Control Plane Network layer that serves as a communication channel between the SDN controller and the datacenter fabric.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies. Designing and implementing well-defined APIs and interactions to present a unified interface to Orion consumers.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Understand the Orion SDN domain space, customer use cases, their current and future needs, help defining components architecture and execute on the SDN Control Plane Network roadmap, aligned to a long-term Orion Core SDN goal.
- Drive innovation and execution of innovative solutions in Orion Core Apps and own components in SDN Control Plane Network.
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