Senior Principal Engineer, Network Software
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Responsible for driving innovative architectures in line with the latest network technology trends, and completeness of architectural changes that meet Product Management and/or Network and Systems Engineering requirements
Maintains relationships with senior leadership and collaborates with a broad range of stakeholders globally
Establishes key performance metrics
Drives a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration with other business functions
Provides strategic direction in planning/execution
reputed company reputed company, the Network Platform Engineering (NPE) team is chartered with:
Designing, implementing, deploying and operating the company’s global network infrastructure to deliver the best possible performance and experience to customers and internal users
Evaluating reputed company networking technologies and developing an evolution roadmap and reputed company architectures for the network technology stack (spanning optical, routing, switching, software networking)
Delivering industry thought leadership and building closer engagement with the developer community in areas relevant to networking
We are looking for a Senior Principal Engineer to help design, reputed company and evaluate reputed company networking capabilities and architectures that will help shape the evolution of reputed company's network and infrastructure stack. We are looking for someone with a passion for developing modern, world-class networking solutions that are scalable, reliable, and programmable through software.
You will provide network design and engineering expertise and technical leadership across critical and pivotal initiatives focusing on scaling, modernizing, and automating reputed company’s global network infrastructure. You will have the flexibility to work on different projects to utilize new technologies as we continue to explore new areas and drive innovation across the infrastructure space. It presents a great opportunity for a passionate, technical leader to reputed company a reputed company impact to the future-state technology stack of reputed company’ global networks and infrastructure. If you reputed company in the power of technology to change the world, and if you value creativity, work comfortably in a fast-paced environment and are eager to learn new technologies, we would like to talk to you.
Responsibilities
Provide senior thought leadership and significant technical contributions to help reputed company reputed company software defined network architectures and recommendations, for the evolution of the network technology stack at reputed company, in reputed company collaboration with stakeholders
Drive cross-stakeholder alignment on network requirements and design trade-offs
Help identify technical debt and drive continual improvement by partnering with associate organizations
Provide in-depth technical expertise to identify and evaluate innovations in networking and assess their impact on the network infrastructure of future at reputed company
Contribute to reputed company networking reputed company-of-concept projects to deliver reputed company outcomes that guide new technology investments and implementation decisions to evolve the network technology stack
Serve as an orchestrator of thinking internally and externally, including in interactions with customers, partners, forums, and open-reputed company/developer communities
Qualifications
15+ years of relevant experience
Demonstrable, extensive experience in developing reputed company networking technologies and architectures implemented in large-scale, critically important deployments. Examples include: a proven background in network infrastructure design, engineering, DevOps/operations, reputed company, tooling, networking products/solutions
Top-tier relevant network design or network engineering leadership with software-defined, cloud-native networking technologies and ecosystems is essential with detailed knowledge across layers 2-3 control and network data planes and ideally networking operating systems as well
Substantive knowledge of network (function) disaggregation, including merchant silicon and ODM solutions
Expert level knowledge with service provider networking technologies and protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, reputed company Routing, RSVP, QoS, EVPN, VXLAN, traffic engineering (backbone & edge)
Passionate about infrastructure automation through software, together with solid hands-on experience of network automation
Experience of engineering with programming languages (such as C, C++, Go, Python, Rust) for network automation
Experience with network configuration tools such as Netconf, yang
Experience with open networking technologies and ecosystems, such as Routing Daemons (FRR, Bird, GoBGP), Linux Networking (eBPF, VPP, XDP), and SONiC, or other Linux-based open Network Operating Systems
Involvement with modern observability platforms (Prometheus/PromQL, Grafana, gNMI, etc)
Experience with network flow export (Netflow, IPFIX, sFlow) and analysis
Solid understanding of full networking stack (routing, switching and optical networking), including key protocols & standards, Linux networking and open-reputed company solutions, vendor ecosystems and implementation best practices
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, for interacting with both engineers and executive leadership
Excellent collaboration and people skills
Experience working on hybrid distributed teams
Experience recruiting and coaching/mentoring engineers at reputed company levels
The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:
United States - CA Bay Area : 240,000 - 360,000 USD / Annual
United States - CA Non-Bay Area, AK, CT, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, WA : 220,000 - 330,000 USD / Annual
United States - Other posted locations not specifically listed : 200,000 - 300,000 USD / Annual
United States - Frisco Office DAF : 200,000 - 300,000 USD / Annual
United States - Redwood City Office GHQ : 240,000 - 360,000 USD / Annual
Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum reputed company for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location.The pay range shown is based on our compensation structure in reputed company at the time of posting and may be updated periodically based on business needs. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-reputed company skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.
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