Staff Network Engineer, Customer Services Edge
Dublin, Dublin
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with one or more optical technologies such as client transceivers, optical metro, long-haul DWDM systems, or submarine systems.
- Experience with planning and designing large-scale networks (e.g., multiple sites, multiple products, etc.).
- Experience in IP networking in a production environment.
- Experience developing networking products, technologies, software and protocols.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in one or more programming languages such as C++, Go, or Python.
- Experience with network equipment manufacturers or network operators in engineering or a design role.
- Experience in network routing protocol design and troubleshooting in BGP, OSPF, IS-IS and MPLS.
- Ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks.
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 Customer Services Edge team is responsible for the network that connects Goolgle's cloud customers directly to the Cloud Networking and other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offerings. In this role, you will own the entire lifecycle of new products and technologies being introduced into Google Global Network's (GGN) edge domain, from conceptualizing, prototyping, developing, executing the pilot, rolling out to the network, and making it generally available, supporting the network/design in its deployed state, and eventually deprecating it. You will be accountable for the holistic health of the customer facing edge network, by delivering the edge as a modular component of GGN's network planning and deployment pipelines, and ensuring that the edge meets its promised
Service Level Objectives (SLO).
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Drive the quantifiable analysis of measurements, or data and capacity. Forecast models for making networks more scalable, efficient, and deliver predictable user experience.
- Evaluate the current inefficiencies, complexities, flaws in network systems and propose designs, software, and processes to improve them.
- Develop software that improves the performance, safety, transparency, and manageability of network systems.
- Participate in rotating schedules with other team members, including weekends.
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About the Company
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So if you want to develop new technology and craft beautiful products, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.