Network Automation Engineer, Optical Networking

About the position

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. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Automate the lifecycle of the Google global core network repair to reduce the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), human error, and operational cost.
• Partner with software engineering teams to innovate and deliver repair-focused software systems and services.
• Build and leverage other repair automation infrastructures from partner software engineering teams to complement and consolidate network repair automation stack.
• Manage technology adoption of solutions to enable repair evolution to support the future of the global core network.
• Provide consultation on setting requirements and defining the design of software applications related to repairing the network.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with one or more optical technologies such as coherent transceivers, optical transport network, DWDM systems.
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as C++, Go, or Python.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience conducting statistical analysis of network hardware and incidents to be used in the creation of continual service improvement plans.
• Experience in developing and maintaining software services, tools and automation frameworks that programmatically analyze and troubleshoot global-scale core networks (e.g., IP and optical network) and their supporting systems.
• Experience creating requirement and design documents for software services and frameworks.
• Ability to write SQL scripts and query data structures to retrieve network and process diagnostic information.
• Ability to analyze business processes and create data-driven recommendations for improvement.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits