Network Engineering Manager, Core and Optical Transport

Google Fiber

Network Engineering Manager for GFiber's Core & Optical Transport team. Lead the engineering for nationwide multi-terabit backbone with a focus on reliability and automation.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $164,000 - $241,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsPythonSwitching

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Network DesignTraffic EngineeringCapacity PlanningOptical TransportDWDM SystemsNetwork AutomationProgramming in GOProgramming in PythonStreaming TelemetryData Analytics

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipStrategic CommunicationExpectation SettingCross-Team AlignmentDecision-Making