Networking, Security, Software Development
Job Id: 1433278
What You'll Do
We are looking for a software engineer to assist in the design and development of Cloud Native Networking solutions. Develop industry leading performance modular software data plane (L1 – L7) utilizing FD.io/VPP packet process engine. You’ll work with the engineering team to develop new features and help the integration in various virtualized, containerized, and bare metal environments. You will be responsible for coding, unit testing, and maintaining features. In addition to code development, you will design & implement private cloud, public cloud, and multi-cloud related solutions.
Who You'll Work With
The Cloud & Network Security (CNS) is part of the Security Business Group (SBG) and its mission is to help people connect securely with confidence on any device, to any application, anywhere, anytime. The Cloud Networking & Data Plane team, which is part of this business unit, focuses on delivering fast user space virtualized networking solutions to SBG as well as other Business Units.
You'll be part of a supportive and expert team who is responsible and focused on delivery and producing results. You'll be able to carve your own path while working closely aligned with project and team goals.
Responsibilities
* This role requires a software technical leader capable of collaborating with industry leaders to address hardware bottlenecks in CPU architectures to improve the efficiency, throughput, and latency of software packet processing.
* The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills both written and oral, is a team builder, is self-motivated to produce excellent software, and has a track record of delivering on the commitments made.
* The focus of this role will be SSE on Edge as part of the evolution of Network Architecture and Data Centre for Cloud Security Engineering products. Upgrading, monitoring, and fixing the production systems with regards to SSE on Edge and handling production issues.
Minimum Qualifications:
* You are a software engineer who is very capable of taking requirements to completion. You are required to have a deep understanding of L2-L7 packet processing and data plane protocols.
* We expect you to have a bachelor's degree and 10+ years' experience delivering cloud software & high-performance software written in C/C++, Python, Golang.
* You should also be familiar with Linux-based operating systems, virtual machines, cloud-based services, and networking protocols.
* CPU hardware architecture (Arm64, x86_64). VPP (Vector Packet Processor) vectorization principles, optimizations, efficiency. CPU / SOC / NIC hardware programming.
* Software performance tuning, hands-on proficiency with hardware evaluation boards and emulators optimizing cache and instruction level efficiency.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Working knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS, as well as virtualization technologies.
* Containerization and Kubernetes knowledge.
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