Senior System Software Engineer, Software-Defined Networking

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Enhance software-defined networking for a global GPU cloud infrastructure that supports AI workloads, cloud gaming, content delivery, and accelerated services.

• Work alongside engineers and architects to establish, assess, and refine multi-tenant control-plane and data-plane architecture utilizing Open vSwitch, OVN, OpenFlow, and overlay networks.

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship through design and code evaluations, implementation direction, production-readiness assessments, and engineering-quality enhancements.

• Create and evaluate production software for Kubernetes networking, network plugins, distributed control planes, Linux host networking, virtual-machine networking, and network automation.

• Convert product and infrastructure specifications into secure orchestration services, APIs, component boundaries, state models, compatibility strategies, and delivery plans.

• Propel the integration of Open vSwitch and OVN across flow behavior, configuration, lifecycle management, upgrades, interoperability, performance, failure recovery, and large-scale production operations.

• Develop automated unit, integration, system, performance, scale, and upgrade tests that connect to CI, deployment, and release-qualification workflows.

• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and lead networking escalations with partner teams.

• Address incidents utilizing packet captures, SDN state, telemetry, profiling, controlled experiments, and source debugging, while implementing measures to prevent recurrence.

• Define and enhance objectives related to reliability, performance, security, and resource efficiency.

• Engineer monitoring, telemetry, tracing, and service-level visibility for production networks.

⛳️ Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 12 years of experience in designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining production software in C and Go.

• Proficient in Bash and Python for test, diagnostic, build, or operational automation.

• Experience in developing, integrating, and troubleshooting Open vSwitch and OVN, including OpenFlow and control-plane-to-data-plane interactions.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes networking, including container network interfaces, network policy, node and pod traffic paths, network plugins, upgrades, and failure modes.

• Solid understanding of Linux networking fundamentals, including IP, TCP, UDP, routing, switching, overlay networks, tunneling, network namespaces, and network policy.

• Expertise in architecting distributed systems with secure service APIs, state management, consistency, scalability, compatibility, and failure handling.

• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, deployments, upgrades, observability, and performance analysis.

• Experience in supporting production services through a shared on-call rotation and coordinating incident responses.

• Collaborative architecture and technical leadership demonstrated through written designs, cross-team collaboration, critical reviews, mentoring, and production delivery.

• Contributions to Open vSwitch, OVN, OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes networking, or another relevant open-source project are advantageous.

• Familiarity with large-scale cloud and accelerated virtualization systems, including SR-IOV, RDMA, SmartNICs, DPUs, NFV, KVM/QEMU, or container runtimes is a plus.

• Experience in building secure, high-performance gRPC or REST services utilizing transport security and robust authentication is beneficial.

• Practical application of agentic AI and AI-assisted software-development tools is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries.

• Generous benefits package.

• Equity.

• Additional benefits.