Nvidia Senior Software Manager Networking 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

318592421

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a team involved with development and delivery of Cumulus Linux packet forwarding andinfrastructurefeatures. Partner with other engineering teams to scope and develop solutions to improve systems security, performance and reliability features.

• Lead a team to design, develop, test and maintain new functionality and improvements to existingfunctionalityrelated to packet forwarding and offload of L2, routing, ACLs, NAT, policy-based routing,VxLAN-EVPN.

• Develop and debug C and Python code for packet forwarding monitoring, reliability and serviceability features as needed.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams for End to End integration of systems infrastructure features into Linux and Cumulus Linux distribution

• Work with project management team for effort estimation and planning of the features.

• Work closely with recruiting staff to expand the team, including sourcing and interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and onboarding new employees. Help engineers develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their current skill levels as well as their long-term development, taking into account evolving strengths and capabilities

• Work with upstream communities as needed, supervise technology trends like emerging standards for any technology opportunities.

• Guide through the problem solving process, minimize how often problems take place and proactively take steps to prevent problems from happening

What we need to see:

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Bachelors (or equivalent experience)

• 10+ overall years of proven leadership in Linux systems, data center networking technologies; familiarity with datacenter protocols and 5 or more years of people management experience in an enterprise environment.

• Familiar with cloud native concepts

• Strong background with Linux OS feature development

• Experience driving projects from concept to production

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Comfortable articulating value propositions to customers and influencing internal teams

• Experience with embedded software on network switches.

• Background with bring up and troubleshooting of Ethernet Switching ASICs, Ethernet interfaces and modules

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Strong background in Ethernet switching, Linux systems and Linux kernel networking

• Experience with Merchant Silicon based platforms for Switching/Routing

• Contributions to SONiC, SwitchDev or Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) projects.

• Knowledge of networking control plane operation in areas like IP, EVPN, Segment Routing etc.