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Senior System Software Engineer

USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software, build IaaS virtual network orchestration services, and operate SDN solutions in large-scale AI cloud environments.

Role type

Senior System Software Engineer (SDN/Networking)

Builds

Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration, BMaaS, VMaaS, Kubernetes networking, and network observability tools.

Domain

Cloud Networking, SDN, Kubernetes, Open Source

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, C, Go, Kubernetes, CNIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipeline design, gRPC, REST, Linux networking, datacenter routing/switching

Preferred skills

GPU/DPU hardware acceleration, multi-cloud deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), SRE/DevOps expertise, observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Jaeger/OpenTelemetry/ELK)

Technologies

OVS, OVN, OpenFlow, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux, GitLab CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK

Responsibilities

Design and develop multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software; Build IaaS virtual network orchestration and services; Contribute upstream to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects; Develop network observability capabilities; Operate and support OVS-OVN SDN solutions; Design and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines; Implement GitOps integrations and drive reliability through incident management.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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