Senior Staff, Software Engineer (C++, System Designs, Linux, Routing & Switching)

About the position

Senior Software Engineer responsible for building critical infrastructure/operating-system software providing scalability, agility and programmability for current and future generations of routing/switching products.

Responsibilities

• Play a critical role in driving our technology vision forward and ensuring that we execute across multiple initiatives.
• Work closely with other engineers across cross-functional teams and product management teams to design, build, and ship high quality software.
• Architect and implement robust and scalable high availability services.
• Conduct low level performance analysis and optimization of the software stack.

Requirements

• Minimum 12+ years of experience as Software Engineer.
• Computer Science fundamentals and Software Engineering best practices.
• Deep hands-on experience in designing, building, delivering, and maintaining critical production-grade software.
• Experience in resource constrained computing (embedded systems).
• Understanding of performance characteristics, balancing tradeoffs between memory, CPU, and I/O.
• Ability to work with large complex codebases.
• Proficient in C and C++, Python is desirable.
• Proficient in Linux programming and an understanding of OS internals, multi-threading and memory management subsystem.
• Strong working knowledge of distributed systems.
• Hands on development experience on routing/switching platforms.