Software Engineer, Automatic Network Fault Mitigation
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Java, C++.
- Experience working within cloud infrastructure and networking.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in network programming or developing/designing large software systems.
- Ability to utilize Linux debugging tools to investigate memory leaks, network reliability and performance issues, and I/O issues.
- Ability to apply software engineering best practices with a strong focus on testing, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
About the job
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.
The Edge Deridex team is improving the availability of all traffic that crosses the Edge of Google's network (i.e. all Internet-facing traffic). Specifically, we are implementing auto mitigation functionality into the network processing elements that deliver customer traffic by building software and network control systems that detect network faults and dynamically reroute customer traffic to working network paths.
In this role, you will work on an industry-leading innovation project to bring revolutionary automated fault mitigation techniques into the routers we deploy on the edge of our network.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build new software and network systems to automatically re-route traffic around network faults and improve the reliability of all network traffic crossing the edge of Google's network.
- Work with router vendors to deliver next generation routing and reliability features.
- Build lab prototypes and proof-of-concept demonstration systems to validate the designs and detailed specifications for next generation features.
- Work with a variety of network application owners across Google to integrate the next generation reliability improvement functionality into the systems and productionise associated functionality.
- Analyze the performance of our network, including the associated control and datapath systems, to measure the impact the impact of various initiatives on network availability of and identify opportunities for further improvement.
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