Senior Software Engineer, Networking

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

$148,000-339,200 per year

SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Software Development @ 6 Linux @ 4 Python @ 4 Networking @ 4 Debugging @ 7 QA @ 4

Details

NVIDIA is a leader in the field of computer graphics, PC gaming, accelerated computing, and AI. Within NVIDIA, the Networking Business Unit is building chips, systems, and software that are powering the most advanced data center and hyper-converged networks of today and tomorrow. We are working on products and solutions on various Ethernet switching platforms as well as SmartNICs like the NVIDIA BlueField® data processing unit (DPU) which ignites outstanding innovation for modern data centers by offloading, accelerating, and isolating a broad range of services.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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, taking full ownership of tasks from A-Z and delivering independently with minimum supervision.
  • Ability to swiftly understand new requirements and technologies and quickly prototype and implement solutions.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

  • 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.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!