SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEER-FORWARDING - Santa Clara, CA

Job Title

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEER-FORWARDING

Relevant Experience

(in Yrs)

at least 4-8  years of relevant experience-  in Networking/Telecom- Embedded/Network Management

Technical/Functional Skills

IPv4/IPv6 routing/forwarding, PBR, ACL, Rate-limiting, QoS

• MPLS, VPLS, VLL, VRF, L3VPN, VXLAN, Openflow, SDN. TCP/IP stack, ARP/ND, DHCP

Experience Required

Software or Hardware-based Packet Forwarding

• Software management of networking HW resources such as TCAM, packet buffers, RIB/FIB,ACL

• IPv4/IPv6 routing/forwarding, PBR, ACL, Rate-limiting, QoS

• MPLS, VPLS, VLL, VRF, L3VPN, VXLAN, Openflow, SDN

• Hitless Software Upgrade/ISSU and High Availability

• TCP/IP stack, ARP/ND, DHCP

• LAG/LACP, Layer 2 switching, Ethernet

• REST API

Highly Desirable:

• Understanding of system architecture, SDK or Drivers for network processor or traffic manager

ASIC/FPGA preferred.

• Experience in Linux OS and multi-threaded programming preferred.

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• Experience in Python, shell scripting preferred.

• Experience in automated software unit testing preferred.

• Excellent C coding and debugging skills are required.

• Comfortable with technical and business English usage (documents reading, e-mails, conference calls)

Roles & Responsibilities

Perform embedded system software design and implementation for leading high-performance data

networking products as a member of a highly capable and dynamic engineering team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded routing, switching or analytics software.

• Implement new features for networking platforms.

• Propose design architectures and solutions for new features and enhancements.

• Unit test implemented work.

• Work with third party protocol/database stacks.

• Resolve software issues that arise during testing cycle and from customers.

• Work closely with software quality assurance engineering to review feature test plans and confirm

functions.

• Be involved in early-stage development of high-performance, next-generation networking platforms

• The ideal candidate should have BS/MS in Engineering CS, EE or related field and 6 years or more hands on experience in Networking area.