Network Engineering Manager, Core and Optical Transport

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🕒 July 7

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Google Fiber

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

📡 Telecommunications

Telecommunications • Internet

Google Fiber is a high-speed internet service provider and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. , offering fiber optic communication services to select areas in the United States. As an integral part of Google's suite of products and services, Google Fiber aims to provide fast and reliable internet connections to enhance user experience across digital platforms.

📋 Description

• Oversee and review network designs to ensure best practices and resolve complex challenges. Own GFiber backbone design, reliability, traffic engineering and capacity planning across IP and optical layers. • Drive observability strategy and telemetry pipelines (SNMP, gNMI/Streaming Telemetry, IPFIX), optical performance monitoring, and the tooling that turns network state into actionable signal. • Plan and engineer metro and long-haul optical transport: capacity growth, wavelength planning, and modernization of the DWDM line system. • Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams. • Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. • Develop the long-term technical goals and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 10 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, networks or distributed systems, including at least 3 years in a technical people management role. • ISP/carrier backbone experience: routing, switching, traffic engineering and capacity modeling at scale across multi-vendor platforms (Juniper, Nokia, Cisco or equivalent). • Optical transport expertise: direct design and operation of DWDM metro and long-haul networks — coherent optics, ROADM/Optical Line System architecture, OTN, and optical capacity and planning. • Software engineering skills applied to network automation and tooling beyond scripting. Direct experience programming in GO and/or Python, building automation systems that other engineers depend on. • Experience with modern network observability: streaming telemetry, network performance data analytics, and deep understanding of the tradeoffs involved in designing an observability pipeline.

🏖️ Benefits

• bonuses • cash award • benefits