Network infrastructure
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.
Team focus summaries
Featured publications
Some of our locations
Some of our people
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Jeffrey C. Mogul
- Networking
- Software Systems
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Nandita Dukkipati
- Networking
- Software Systems
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Yuchung Cheng 鄭又中
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Networking
- Software Systems
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Carl Lebsack
- Data Management
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Philip M Wells
- Hardware and Architecture
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Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
- Networking
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John Wilkes
- Data Management
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Software Systems
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Marc de Kruijf
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Hardware and Architecture
- Networking
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Steve Gribble
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Hardware and Architecture
- Networking
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Christopher Alfeld
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Hardware and Architecture
- Networking
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Junlan Zhou
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Networking
- Software Systems
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Rui Wang
- Algorithms and Theory
- Networking
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Gautam Kumar
- Algorithms and Theory
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Networking
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Dan Gibson
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Networking
- Software Systems
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Hassan Wassel
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Hardware and Architecture
- Networking
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Leon Poutievski
- Networking
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Andrew D. Ferguson
- Networking
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Karthik Nagaraj
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Networking
Join our team
Internships
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 necessarily require a prior background in networking.
Please check again in September or October 2024 to find out about internships for 2025.
Open role(s)
- Software Engineer, Systems and Infrastructure, PhD University Graduate : Learn more
- 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.
