Web Routing & Redirect Specialist, WebOps

About the Role

Join Google Operations Center to help users and customers solve problems and achieve their goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and Execute Web Redirects: Design, implement, test, and manage web redirect strategies and routing rules. Ensure all configurations are optimized for seamless user transitions, minimal latency, and zero disruption to live traffic.
• Manage and Refactor Legacy Codebases: Comfortably navigate, analyze, and maintain legacy codebases. Safely modify environment variables, deployment configurations, and data serialization files as required to support infrastructure updates without breaking existing builds or production environments.
• Maintain High-Quality Engineering Standards: Write clean, well-documented, and highly testable code.
• Monitor and Troubleshoot Traffic Flow: Analyze server behavior, traffic patterns, and routing logs to diagnose and resolve complex redirection loops, broken links, or configuration anomalies that impact the user experience.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Web Architecture Mastery: Complete, comprehensive understanding of modern web architecture, including client-server models, the HTTP request/response lifecycle, DNS management, and content delivery networks (CDNs).
• Backend Core Competency: Solid backend engineering knowledge necessary to execute, troubleshoot, and optimize complex server-side redirect systems, proxy configurations, and underlying application logic.
• Expertise in HTTP & Site Headers: Advanced understanding of HTTP site headers, including caching controls, security headers, routing protocols, and HTTP status codes (e.g., 301, 302, 404), and how they influence browser behavior and search engine indexing.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of relevant technical experience working with web infrastructure, backend engineering, or systems operations.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.