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.
Help drive the technical direction of the Statera family of load balancers. Work with team members, managers, partner teams, product management, and SRE to help determine platform strategy and put it into effect. Help improve the developer experience within the team, including AI usage, on-call toil reduction, improved playbooks for customer issues, quota requests and better capacity management.
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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to seamlessly connect AI workloads to models and agents, ensuring the load balancing infrastructure is perfectly optimized for next-generation computing demands.
- Drive critical data plane performance improvements and increase system utilization to enhance overall scalability, while optimizing the hardware footprint to achieve profitability across all product variants.
- Advocate GKE as a first-class deployment strategy to solve scalability challenges, reduce friction for users (e.g., proxy-only subnets, ILB as next hop), and lead the service-centric cross-cloud networking initiatives.
- Expand and modernize network protocol capabilities by delivering a comprehensive IPv6 implementation alongside the support for HTTP/3, UDP, and HTTP/1.0.
- Strengthen the platform's defensive posture by improving Denial of Service (DoS) protection and ensuring all load balancers meet strict enterprise requirements.
Qualifications
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.