Senior Staff Network Engineer, Google Global Infrastructure
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 15 years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Architects and advances Google’s global network infrastructure, including routing systems, high-throughput fabrics, encryption, and network hardware roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Optimize NPU forwarding pipelines with silicon vendors and evaluate scheduling, table, FIB, and ECMP/WCMP trade-offs.
- Advance large-scale routing and SDN protocols, and design high-throughput tunneling and line-rate encryption.
- Architect network structures and shape hardware, silicon, and system roadmaps for Core and Edge networks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in network architecture, router platform engineering, NPU/ASIC forwarding design, or distributed routing systems.
- Experience with hyperscale network routing and traffic engineering protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), and modern SDN/management interfaces.
Nice to have
- Experience integrating or debugging Broadcom, Silicon One, or comparable switch ASIC SDKs and SAI implementations.
- Experience with high-speed SerDes, physical-layer interface architectures, and signal integrity for board- and system-level routing designs.
Pay
$222000 - $308000 USD base salary
Tools
BGP, IS-IS, Segment Routing (SRv6), MPLS, gRIBI, P4Runtime, MACsec, IPsec
AI focus
Designs disaggregated AI WAN fabrics.
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