Software Engineer II, Cloud Networking

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.

In this role, you will be a part of Cloud Networking and are responsible for designing and developing the user-facing networking products that are a part of Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs. You are responsible for the API interfaces, data-model and orchestrated programming of all of the networking control plane infrastructure, enabling sophisticated functions such as cloud load-balancing, routing, firewalls, virtual private networks, peering, hybrid cloud, organizational policies, among others.

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

• Modernize the existing infrastructure by transitioning our systems in a microservices oriented architecture based on new protocols for building the control planes in Google Cloud Platform.
• Build control plane for user facing networking features and products in various areas (e.g., NICs, hybrid cloud, security).
• Define API interfaces for end users.
• Interact with internal data-model and orchestrate programming of all of the networking control plane infrastructure.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  
• 1 year of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems, networking or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in Java.