Software Engineer, PhD, Early Career, 2026

About the role

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another.

What you'll do

• 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

What you need

• Data structures
• System design
• Python
• Java
• C++
• Machine learning
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Go
• TCP/IP
• C
• GCP
• NLP