Senior Engineer, System Software, SDN Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Create and implement next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software utilizing OVS, OVN, and OpenFlow.

• Develop Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST for BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes.

• Lead upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and similar open-source initiatives.

• Design and develop network observability tools for monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis.

• Manage and support OVS-OVN-based SDN solutions within large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments.

• Take ownership of end-to-end SDN observability, incorporating monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding.

• Construct, improve, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, and Kubernetes CNIs.

• Apply GitOps methodologies and securely integrate with cloud infrastructure.

• Enhance reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance optimization.

• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and network engineering teams to ensure production readiness and develop operational tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 8 years of demonstrated software development experience in large-scale distributed systems.

• In-depth expertise in OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, and contemporary network protocols.

• Proficient programming skills in C and Go.

• Advanced scripting capabilities in Bash and Python.

• Comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes and practical experience in deploying and supporting CNIs, particularly OVN-Kubernetes.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment tools such as Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Flux.

• Experience in designing and managing complex, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines.

• Practical knowledge in developing secure, high-performance gRPC and REST services with TLS and robust authentication.

• Strong understanding of datacenter routing, switching, and Linux host/VM networking.

• Contributions to open-source projects, especially OVS, OVN, OVN-Kubernetes, or other Kubernetes networking initiatives.

• Familiarity with hardware acceleration technologies such as GPU or DPU for networking.

• Practical experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/multi-cloud deployments.

• Expertise in SRE/DevOps, including on-call responsibilities, incident management, reliability targets, and production ownership.

• Experience with observability platforms and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and ELK.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary package.

• Equity options.

• Comprehensive benefits.

• Commitment to an equal opportunity and inclusive work environment.