Network Software Development Engineer, Switch

Our Networking team brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Our Networking team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of switch OS for data center network devices;
• Explore new networking, monitoring, and telemetry technologies to improve data center network efficiency and availability
  
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related major, with 2 or more years in professional software development
• Master one or several of the mainstream programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, Python, Go, bash
• Passion in high-speed IP networking, hardware-software interaction, and hardware offloading technologies
• Knowledge of Linux or Unix; proficient in Linux command line, vim/emacs
• Knowledge on how switch/router works, embedded system hardware architecture, processor architecture, and switch/router OS
• Hands-on experience in mainstream merchant switch software development, or SONiC open source development; experience in BSP development is a plus
• Familiar with switch ASIC SDK, experience in XGS driver or SAI development is a plus
• Familiar with or protocol development, experience in routing protocols, telemetry development
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
• Self-motivation and self-driving under limited supervision