Senior Staff Software Engineer, High Performance Networking, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering
googleSan Jose, CA
Senior Staff Software Engineer, High Performance Networking, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, High Performance Networking, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering 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. The High Performance Networking (HPN) team's mission is to deliver scalable, state-of-the-art high-performance networking solutions to support a various range of high performance workloads for Google and Google Cloud. The HPN team is at the core of Google's AI infrastructure. We design, deliver, and sustain Google's end-to-end RDMA stack, comprising: Core IPU components and Linux kernel/Guest RDMA drivers. Industry-leading acceleration technologies such as TPUDirect, TPUDirect Storage (TDS), and GPUDirect Storage (GDS).As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the evolution of this stack. You will drive the integration of the high-performance networking layers with industry-leading Parallel File Systems (PFS) and storage servers. Your technical leadership will directly shape the efficiency, scalability, and performance of Google's hyperscaler platform for next-generation AI/ML training and inference workloads.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Lead and coach a distributed engineering team, fostering innovation while aligning cross-functional groups on goals, priorities, and deliverables.
Large-Scale and LLM Architecture: Design and deploy scalable software and advanced serving architectures, optimizing the LLM serving stack for efficiency and reliability.
Performance and Network Engineering: Architect performant network transport across various NICs and platforms, tuning the communication stack to accelerate HPC, RDMA, and ML workloads.
Strategic Roadmap and Trends: Partner with cross-organizational leaders to co-develop roadmaps bridging RDMA, storage, and AI/ML, staying ahead of training and inference advancements.
Collaborative System Integration: Collaborate with hardware, software, and systems engineers to bridge communication gaps and ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Experience level
Lead
Location
San Jose, CA
Occupation
Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
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