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Senior Software Engineer Datapath

Westford, Massachusetts, United States of America💼 Full-time💰 $136,500–$260,500🗓 2026-07-02 → 2026-07-30

Core

Design and develop an optimized, high-speed software-based forwarding plane for AI-driven SD-WAN applications and WAN Assurance platforms.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Datapath)

Builds

Zero-touch connectivity solutions for Mist-managed networks and SD-WAN functions on hardware appliances and virtual machines.

Domain

Networking / Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) / High-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C++ development, DPDK/VPP frameworks, multi-threaded development, Linux systems programming, distributed systems architecture, debugging and optimization, object-oriented design, complexity analysis

Preferred skills

Agile development, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, functional specification writing, code review

Technologies

DPDK, VPP, Linux, C++, SD-WAN

Responsibilities

Craft new features for intelligent path routing, write functional and design specifications, program and test code, participate in design and code reviews, guide technical design, improve product efficiency and scalability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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