Staff Network Engineer, Demand to Design

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with Network Architecture, Network Configuration, Network Operations, Optical Engineering and Operations, Network Design, Telecommunications, Collaboration, and Decision Making.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in one or more programming languages such as C++, Go, or Python.
• Experience in telecommunications at a carrier-class scale, with experience in optical networks, DWDM, IP, and data services.
• Experience defining system or process requirements, building, integrating, or delivering large-scale layer 1, layer 2, or layer 3 network systems.
• Knowledge of Content Distribution Networks (CDN), IP transit/peering, dark fiber, colocation, optical transport, and cloud technologies and industry processes.
• Ability to identify, break down, and solve ambiguous and complex process and technical problems that span across many teams and organizations.

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.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Lead the stipulation and documentation of architectural policy and standards across different layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) stack (e.g., L0-L1 mapping, L1-L3 striping rules, etc.). Work cross-functionally to ensure alignment across product, technology, software engineering, and business teams.
• Drive the development and implementation of hardware life-cycle policies to minimize excess and obsolescence (E&O) while balancing the introduction of new technology to support new functionality, scaling, and unit cost reduction.
• Develop methodologies to capture architectural and hardware policies in a machine-readable format for consistent and wide integration across the Google Global Infrastructure (GGI) stack.
• Run designs and perform an automated verification to ensure executability for a given design.
• Act as a "go-to" Network Engineer (NE) by developing new approaches for integrating different technologies and methods across the organisation.

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