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Sr Software Engineer - Dataplane Development

Santa Clara, California, United States🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-07-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop high-performance packet and security service processing software for SD-WAN/SASE/SSE platforms on multi-core architecture systems.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (dataplane/network forwarding)

Builds

NextGen Packet Forwarding and security features for SDWAN/SASE/SSE platforms

Domain

Networking, Security, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C/C++, Linux Kernel development, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN technologies, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), packet processing pipelines, multi-core architecture systems, Ethernet/QAT/LTE/Wifi/SRIOV/virtio/vmxnet3/OVS interfaces, performance benchmarking, troubleshooting critical issues

Preferred skills

DPDK, Remote Access VPN solutions, IPSEC, PKI & SSL, scalable high-performance system design

Technologies

DPDK, SRIOV, virtio, vmxnet3, OVS, Linux Kernel

Responsibilities

Design and develop software for real-time network applications on a multi-core architecture; Design, Develop and maintain the NextGen Packet Forwarding and security features; Work across Development, System Test, PLM and TAC teams; Work on challenging problems and bring in new ideas for platform optimization

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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