Nvidia Senior Software Engineer Networking 

United States, Texas 

596354388

We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer with experience in data forwarding technologies, network functions virtualization (NFV) and related areas to join the team and work on various data forwarding and offload solutions. You will develop software for several data forwarding and NFV capabilities which may be applicable to the Ethernet switching platforms as well as to SmartNIC offload. You will use the latest software development tools and techniques and will gain outstanding knowledge of modern data center architectures and acceleration of workloads. You will implement and maintain core of Cumulus Linux: code that translates control plane constructs into the hardware data plane and end-to-end solutions.

• Designing, developing, testing and maintaining new functionality and improvements to existing functionality related to forwarding and offload of routing, ACLs, QOS, CLAG, NAT, policy-based routing, VxLAN-EVPN and so on.

• Working on data forwarding on Ethernet switching platforms as well as on SmartNICs, based on the roadmap

• Collaborating with team members, architects, QA and Support teams on feature definition, development, release and defect fixing

• For senior levels, leading and guiding multi-functional teams on large feature development activities.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

• 5+ years of software development experience in data forwarding on Ethernet switching silicon and/or offload on SmartNICs.

• Strong and validated experience in C programming

• Strong technical abilities, problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills

• Previous experience leading feature development, take full ownership of tasks from A-Z and deliver independently with minimum supervision

• Ability to swiftly understand new requirements and technologies and quickly prototype and implement solutions

• Experience with Merchant Silicon for Switching/Routing.

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

• Experience accelerating packet processing on Ethernet switching platforms. Experience in virtualized networking and SRIOV, container networking concepts, networking functionality like NAT, Firewall and Load Balancer etc.

• Knowledge of Linux kernel networking as well as experience with control plane operation in areas like EVPN, Segment Routing etc.

• Participation in the open-source community and python programming skills