Nvidia Senior Software Manager Networking 

United States, California 

305685968

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a team involved with development and delivery of Cumulus Linux packet forwarding and infrastructure features. 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 existing functionality related to packet forwarding and offload of 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

• 3 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 for Switching/Routing

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

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