Staff Network Engineer, Global Network Operations

Job description

info_outline 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. Global Network Operations is the team responsible for the reliability, availability, and optimization of the Google Global Network Underlay. Team members solve problems that drive the performance Google needs under our explosive growth.

We operate one of the largest planetary networks to ever exist, which presents reliability challenges that must evolve as our customer base evolves. This role will focus on network health and performance, as well as the expansion and optimization of telemetry signal processing and automated workflow design. You will work to increase productivity in our incident management and repair processes, identify AI and automation opportunities to increase productivity in network health optimization, and design robust solutions to network scaling challenges.

You will work in a heavily matrixed environment across operations, engineering, dev and SRE to solve critical network scaling issues and drive reliability SLO to and above customer requirements across the global footprint.