Software Engineering Manager, SDN Control, Data Center Networks

Job description

Lead a team software engineers responsible for developing the SDN framework, applications and tools to enable various networking innovations and deployments at scale. Collaborate across Networking Infrastructure and Cloud with product managers, technical program managers, and other software engineer managers on applications built for the Google data center. Define a goal and long-term strategy for the team, identifying, recommending, and executing improvements to SDN Infrastructure. Drive all aspects of development including requirements definition, design, implementation, unit testing, and integration, building flexible technology to deliver highly-available, easily-evolvable networking infrastructure, while upholding high standards in Product Excellence and developing infrastructure to support large scale system operations. Mentor individual engineers focusing on alignment of long-term career goals to project priorities and business objectives. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture. 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role. 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role. Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization. Experience in distributed, microservices based software development. Experience with some combination of: Formal Methods/Verification, SDN match-action forwarding paradigm (e.g. OpenFlow or P4).