We design and build the world's most innovative and efficient datacenter networks and end-host networking stacks, to enable compute and storage not available anywhere else.
About the team
Our team brings together experts in networking, distributed systems, kernel and systems programming, end-host stacks, and advanced algorithms to create the datacenter networks that power Google. Our networks are among the world’s largest and fastest, and we design them to be reliable, cheap, and easy to evolve. We often use new technologies unavailable outside Google.
We exemplify Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research: we deploy real-world systems at global scale. Many members of our team have extensive research experience, we publish papers in conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, and OSDI, and we work closely with interns and faculty from leading universities.
Every Google product relies on the technologies we develop. Our networks support complex, highly-available, planetary-scale distributed systems with billions of users. We constantly evolve our networks to meet the requirements of, and create opportunities for, new and better Google products, especially the rapidly-growing Google Cloud.
Our team works in many locations: Sunnyvale CA, New York City, Madison WI, Boulder CO, Reston VA, and Seattle WA.
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Featured publications
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (2020), 708–721
15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2018
In ACM SIGOPS 27th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2019) (to appear)
17th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) (2020)
Proc. 17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HoTOS) (2019)
Proc. 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2019), USENIX Association (to appear)
NANOG (2018)
Communications of the ACM, vol. 60 (2017), pp. 58-66
13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16), USENIX Association, Santa Clara, CA (2016), pp. 523-535
Communications of the ACM, vol. Vol. 59, No. 9 (2016), pp. 88-97
Sigcomm '15, Google Inc (2015)
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Join our team
We have a vigorous internship program, with a strong focus on PhD-level students who would like to understand how large-scale networks are designed, built, and operated. We also hire Bachelors and Masters interns. Most of our internship projects are focused on building software, especially distributed systems and kernels, and do not require a prior background in networking.
Note that Google's internship programs have different application deadlines. We strongly recommend that PhD students apply before mid-December.
We're hiring interns for these Summer 2021 openings:
- Software Engineering Intern, Systems and Infrastructure, PhD: Learn more
[Deadline: February 26, 2021, but we recommend applying before mid-December ] - Software Engineer, Masters: Learn more
[Deadline: December 4, 2020] - Software Engineer, Bachelors: Learn more
[Deadline: December 4, 2020] - Student Training in Engineering Program (STEP, for Rising second-year and rising third-year students): Learn more
[We are no longer taking new applications for Summer 2021 in the United States] - Hardware Engineer: We are no longer taking new applications for Summer 2021.
PhD-level software engineers in Network Infrastructure apply their research training to the toughest problems of designing and building large-scale, high-performance, high-availability distributed systems to design, manage, measure, and control our datacenter, WAN, and peering-edge SDN networks (each of which has been the subject of at least one SIGCOMM paper). We're also creating innovative end-host stacks, to support CPU-efficient, low-latency, congestion-aware communication, with secure isolation between users. You'll work with other skillful, creative people, including people who wrote research papers you've read, and you'll keep connected with the academic research community.
Note that this job opening covers teams besides Network Infrastructure; we have several teams looking for a candidates with a mix of various "Systems" skills.
In this role you’ll use your technical expertise in distributed computing and large-scale systems to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions as well as build software for distributed services, abstractions, and the components of the system that operate and power the world's largest network infrastructure.