Software Defined Networking Engineer
Canonical
πRemote - United States
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Job highlights
Summary
Join teams that focus on open source networking software at Canonical, working with networking silicon providers to optimise Ubuntu and related applications for their ASICs, boards and appliances.
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Knowledge of networking: architecture, design, and protocols
- Deep understanding of Linux networking, from kernel to user space
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, C/C++, Rust or Python
- Professional written and spoken English
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Responsibilities
- Work with the most advanced operating systems and network application technologies available
- Collaborate with public clouds and network silicon providers
- Design and implement the best software-defined networking experience for the latest hardware platforms and software stacks
- Write high-quality, well-designed and well-documented software
- Contribute to shape innovative product strategies
- Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
- Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
- Display technical leadership internally, towards our partners, and in the open source communities
- Influence open-source projects and communities
- Shape software-define networking products for evolving data centre architectures to meet ever-increasing bandwidth, reliability, security, and interoperability demands
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with existing open source networking technologies - kernel (including eBPF, AF_XDP), OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DENT, Switchdev, DPDK, SPDK, 5G 3GPP, ONF stack, iwd, NetworkManager, etc
- Familiarity with data path hardware acceleration protocols and interfaces, such as RDMA, RoCE, iWARP, NVMe, SR-IOV
- Computer architecture knowledge of x86, ARM, and RISC-V
- Experience in complex IP network engineering and implementation
- Experience with virtualization technologies, e.g., QEMU, KVM, etc
- Previous contribution to open source projects and community involvement
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Cloud-native Network Functions, and Container Network Interface plugins
- Performance engineering and security experience
Benefits
- Work from home
- Global travel twice a year for company events of up to two weeks duration
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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