Senior Software Engineer, NOS Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take the lead in porting platforms and developing BSP for switch ASIC platforms, which includes hardware bring-up, driver integration, and adaptations specific to the platform.

• Integrate and validate ASIC drivers, manage optics/transceivers, oversee thermal/power management, and handle BMC/baseboard interfaces.

• Create platform abstractions and implementations that support SONiC and FBOSS architectures.

• Design and implement components for both control plane and data plane tailored for SONiC and FBOSS.

• Develop and sustain platform services and daemons focused on hardware monitoring, configuration, and management.

• Work in collaboration with the SAI/SDK team to integrate the switch abstraction layer with SONiC and FBOSS.

• Construct and maintain testing frameworks, automation, and CI/CD pipelines for the validation of the NOS platform.

• Compose thorough unit and integration tests.

• Analyze and optimize the performance of NOS for latency, throughput, and resource utilization.

• Engage with the open-source communities of SONiC and FBOSS, contributing enhancements.

• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and systems teams to troubleshoot integration challenges and define platform requirements.

• Utilize AI coding assistants and emerging tools to enhance development speed and code quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 7 to 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong expertise in C/C++ and Python.

• Experience with Linux systems programming and networking stack.

• Familiarity with switch/networking hardware or experience in network operating system development.

• Excellent debugging and problem-solving abilities for complex hardware/software integration challenges.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• A commitment to AI-first development practices and ongoing learning of new AI tools.

• Experience in SONiC platform development is highly preferred.

• Experience with FBOSS is strongly desirable.

• Background in Linux kernel and driver development.

• Experience with network protocol implementation, including L2/L3 switching, routing, BGP, and OSPF.

• Familiarity with switch ASIC/SDK integration.

• Experience with platform services and daemons.

• Understanding of hardware/ASIC architecture.

• Experience with performance optimization and profiling using tools like perf, gprof, valgrind, or similar.

• A history of contributions to open-source projects.

• Experience in technical leadership and mentoring.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.

• Knowledge of test automation frameworks and CI/CD systems.

• Experience with platform bring-up, BSP development, or embedded Linux systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance incentives.

• Equity participation.

• Additional benefits based on geographic location.

• Paid holidays depending on geographic location.

• Flexible work arrangements based on geographic location.

• Opportunity for remote work from Costa Rica via an EOR.