Senior
Scale the out-of-band control plane infrastructure that bootstraps and manages Google's data centers
Google's Control Plane Networking team scales the out-of-band infrastructure responsible for bootstrapping and ongoing management of network devices across Google's global data centers, including work supporting AI-driven networking growth. This is a senior, full-stack infrastructure role spanning distributed systems, network fundamentals, code review, and design leadership.
Step into this interview
Free · a live voice mock calibrated to this exact role
Likely format
Standard Google SWE loop: phone screen(s) with coding, onsite/virtual rounds covering coding, system design, and a Googleyness/leadership behavioral interview.
What this interview tests
- Control-plane / out-of-band network infrastructure design at data-center scale
- Distributed systems: scaling, availability, efficiency tradeoffs
- Technical leadership: driving design reviews, mentoring, code review rigor
- Production issue triage across hardware/network/service layers
- Core data structures and algorithms depth
Common question themes
Design or scale an out-of-band network management system for data centers
Data structures and algorithms coding rounds
System design: control plane scaling, availability, and fault domains
Leadership/behavioral: leading a design review or mentoring junior engineers
Googleyness/leadership behavioral round
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