Staff Software Engineer, Network Insights

Staff Software Engineer, Network Insights at Google. Join to apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Network Insights role at Google.

• Drive the technical strategy, define long-term goals and road-maps for improved network reliability, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis.
• Serve as a technical leader, mentoring other engineers, influencing stakeholders across teams, and guiding technical decisions to ensure high-quality solutions.
• Manage ambiguous problems, reduce chaos in existing systems, and anticipate future scaling needs to maintain system stability and performance of the codebase.
• Understand data and its impacts on the software design, investigate unusual data and propose a course of action for dealing with it.
• Contribute to the broader engineering community through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and participation in team-wide activities.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, C/C++ or Python.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks architecture.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience in networking domains.
• Experience in analysing data, identifying patterns and trends, and turning them into recommendations.
• Experience with coding in data structures, algorithms and software design.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Network Insights develops software that empowers users to navigate and dissect volumes of networking data. Our innovations enable the extraction of critical signals from overwhelming noise, proactively preventing outages, and elevating the overall quality and reliability of Google\'s network for billions of users worldwide. Our mission is critical to minimize the impact of network impairments on all Google customers. This involves a dynamic approach to analysing network signals, pinpointing anomalies, and automatically diagnosing the root causes of outages. This testing and rewarding role demands an effective combination of software engineering experience and a data-problem-solving mindset.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.