The Senior Staff Software Engineer role in Unified Traffic Engineering at Google focuses on optimizing routing and traffic load balancing for Google's global networks. This position involves delivering network flows for Google and Google Cloud Platform services while ensuring compliance with Service Level Objectives. The AI and Infrastructure team aims to redefine capabilities by delivering AI and Infrastructure at scale. Engineers in this role will work on critical projects that impact billions of users and contribute to the development of cutting-edge technologies.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Build next generation traffic engineering functionality.
• Work closely with other UTE team members, test engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers to ship product releases.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.