Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking

Design and develop next-generation multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software (OVS, OVN, OpenFlow)

Build Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services using gRPC and REST to support tenant workload security and performance SLAs for BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes

Drive upstream contributions to OVN-Kubernetes and related open-source projects; Develop software for network observability — monitoring, telemetry, intelligent metering, and performance analysis

Operate and support OVS-OVN based SDN solutions in large-scale NVIDIA AI Cloud environments

Own end-to-end observability for the SDN stack — build and maintain monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and dashboarding to ensure real-time insight into network health, performance, and tenant SLAs

Design, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) across Linux host networking, OVS, OVN, and Kubernetes CNIs

Implement GitOps approaches or related experience for secure, seamless integration with cloud infrastructure; Drive reliability through incident management, resource monitoring, and performance tuning

Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and network engineering teams on production readiness and operational tooling

BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field, or a comparable blend of education and relevant experience

5+ years of proven experience in software development for large-scale distributed environments

Expert-level knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, and modern network protocols

Strong programming skills in C and Go; advanced scripting in Bash and Python

Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, practical experience deploying and supporting CNIs (OVN-Kubernetes)

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux)