Software Engineer, PhD, Google Cloud Platform
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
PhD Software Engineer position at Google Cloud Platform (GCP) focused on hybrid connectivity, AI data, and scalable distributed systems. Role involves design, development, and delivery of features for GCP hybrid connectivity products within a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for design, development, and delivery of product features and components within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hybrid connectivity products. Drive projects from design to launch with limited oversight.
- Design, and implement highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems for hybrid cloud networking. Make sound technical judgments in ambiguity and proactively identify opportunities for system improvements or new tool development.
- Collaborate across multiple Engineering teams, including Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other Networking teams within GCP.
- Contribute to team-level technical decisions and participate in broader engineering community efforts such as interviewing and knowledge sharing.
- Ensure the production health, monitoring, and on-call support for hybrid connectivity services. Drive initiatives to improve system reliability, observability, and supportability, potentially leveraging AI/ML for enhanced operational insights.
Qualifications
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience in software development, with a focus on areas such as large-scale distributed systems, AI/ML, networking, data storage, or security.
- Experience in architecture or development of distributed systems, including concurrency, multi-threading, or synchronization.
- Experience in algorithms, complexity analysis, and system design.
- Experience coding in one of the following programming languages including but not limited to: C, C++, Python, Java or Golang.
Skills
Required:Distributed systems design and developmentLarge-scale systemsAlgorithms and complexity analysisProgramming languages
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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