
Staff Software Engineer, Google Autonomous Network
Google · Posted Oct 15
Search engine, cloud computing, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence services
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About the role
The Google Autonomous Networking (GAN) team's mission is to build an intuitive, easy-to-consume Management Plane for Google's Global Network, spanning the customer-facing B2 network and Google's private WAN B4. The team designs distributed software systems to solve complex network problems related to install, turn-up, activation, capacity-expansion, capacity-reduction, and decommissioning of network elements, as part of Google's AI and Infrastructure organization. This role provides technical leadership and designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and enhances large-scale software solutions.
What you will do
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
Skills used in this role
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.
- Experience in building software applications in the networking domain.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it is widely recognized for services like Google Search, YouTube, Android, and the Gemini AI ecosystem.
- Industry
- Internet
- Company size
- 180000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998-09-04
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25M raised
- 1999-06-07Series A$25M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud
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