Staff Software Engineer, Google SDN Control plane

Benefits

Parental leave

18 weeks Source: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/diversity/international-womens-day-2022/. source Last checked May 7, 2026.

Non-birth-parent leave

18 weeks Source: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/diversity/international-womens-day-2022/. source Last checked May 7, 2026.

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Source-linked checked May 7, 2026

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401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer, Google SDN Control plane Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 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 team provides the most scalable and reliable SDN Production Infrastructure for Google. Orion, the Software Defined Networking (SDN) brain that powers Google's data center and wide-area networks within the broader Network Infrastructure group. The team mission is to deliver a holistic infrastructure to run Orion and improve Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) scalability. This mission is cross-functional, touching Orion's own design, the systems that are used for management (e.g., config push) as well as the software stacks that Orion relies on (e.g., Chubby, Network Computing System (NCS) machines). The Team is currently focused on Rollouts, NCS Resource optimisation, gSSD in NCS, Orion

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