Senior Staff Engineer, Software Defined Dataplane
Core
Designing new network service offerings through network-adjacent virtualized compute on a global network to support Digital Interconnection services.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Networking/SDN)
Builds
Highly scalable and reliable networking software services and next-generation networking platforms.
Domain
Digital Infrastructure / Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Golang, distributed systems, L2/L3 networking protocols (BGP, EVP-LAN, IPSEC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), public cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), gRPC, Netconf, system profiling, stress testing, technical leadership, mentoring.
Preferred skills
Experience with open source networking communities (Linux Foundation), building software defined multi-tenant networking platforms at scale.
Technologies
Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, gRPC, Netconf, Linux Foundation tools.
Responsibilities
Design and manage networking software services in highly concurrent, scalable, distributed transactional systems; Align technical design with business outcomes to meet customer SLAs; Lead CI/CD pipeline setup with unit and integration tests; Develop observability strategies; Improve system performance and scale using profiling and stress testing; Identify technical debt and drive software quality improvements; Lead next-generation networking proof-of-concept projects; Partner with operations teams for production operationalization; Participate in incident management and troubleshooting; Participate in on-call rotation.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with leadership and mentorship responsibilities.
