Google

Platform Technical Leader, Statera

Google$207K — $301K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years programming in C.
  • 5 years in testing and launching software products.
  • 5 years building large-scale infrastructure or networks.
  • 3 years in software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead initiatives to integrate AI workloads with load balancing infrastructure.
  • Drive data plane performance improvements for enhanced scalability.
  • Advocate GKE as a preferred deployment strategy for users.
  • Expand network protocol capabilities with comprehensive IPv6 and modern transport support.
  • Strengthen platform security against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

Benefits

  • 20% bonus target
  • Equity benefits
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C .
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.


About the job

Help drive the technical direction of the Statera family of load balancers. Work with team members, managers, partner teams, product management, and SRE to help determine platform strategy and put it into effect. Help improve the developer experience within the team, including AI usage, on-call toil reduction, improved playbooks for customer issues, quota requests and better capacity management.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

Responsibilities
  • Lead initiatives to seamlessly connect AI workloads to models and agents, ensuring the load balancing infrastructure is perfectly optimized for next-generation computing demands.
  • Drive critical data plane performance improvements and increase system utilization to enhance overall scalability, while optimizing the hardware footprint to achieve profitability across all product variants.
  • Advocate GKE as a first-class deployment strategy to solve scalability challenges, reduce friction for users (e.g., proxy-only subnets, ILB as next hop), and lead the service-centric cross-cloud networking initiatives.
  • Expand and modernize network protocol capabilities by delivering a comprehensive IPv6 implementation alongside the support for HTTP/3, UDP, and HTTP/1.0.
  • Strengthen the platform's defensive posture by improving Denial of Service (DoS) protection and ensuring all load balancers meet strict enterprise requirements.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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$182.5 billion
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