Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Networking

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in building or maintaining complex, high-concurrency systems and understand the challenges of state, consistency, and scale.
• Experience in engaging with the tech community—whether contributing to upstream special interest groups (SIGs), speaking at Meetups, or collaborating on Slack.
• Expertise in network virtualization, distributed systems, and modern protocols.
• Deep, "under the hood" understanding of Kubernetes or containerised environments strongly preferred. Knowledge of how controllers, schedulers, and APIs interact at scale.
• Ability to grow on technical growth and to dive into unfamiliar territory.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

In this role, you won’t just be maintaining infrastructure; you will be defining the nervous system of the world’s most advanced cloud platform. You will own the architectural evolution of networking capabilities that power "Megaclusters"—systems of unprecedented scale—and purpose-built networking for the next generation of AI/ML training and Agentic workflows.

From optimizing data planes with extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) to shaping the future of the Kubernetes open-source ecosystem, your work ensures that the world’s largest enterprises can run their most critical distributed systems with seamless connectivity and ironclad security.

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

• Own and lead the roadmap for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Networking, driving the evolution of virtualization solutions that support tens of thousands of nodes and beyond.
• Design and develop high-performance networking solutions specifically optimized for large-scale model training, low-latency GPU communication, and autonomous agentic workloads.
• Lead the design of both data plane and control plane elements, pushing the boundaries of network connectivity, security, and service mesh technologies.
• Partner cross-functionally with GKE Platform and Cloud Networking teams to unify Google’s networking fabric.
• Act as a primary voice in the Kubernetes Open Source community, influencing standards and advocating GKE innovations at global forums, meetups, and technical summits.