Lead Networking Software Developer

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a similar field.
  
  Master’s degree preferred.
• Three or more years of professional experience working in computer networking or communications.
• Strong foundation in C with background in embedded programming:
• Other system languages such as C++, Go a plus.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• Software-based fast path such as DPDK or VPP
• Hardware offloads utilizing network processors and SmartNICs
• Container Networking Interfaces in K8s, such as SR-IOV CNI and Multus CNI
• Other target architectures such as Intel Tofino P4, Broadcom NPL, eBPF are a plus.
• Exposure to Linux networking, kernel internals, containerization concepts.
  
  
• Proven analytical ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and test new data plane features for Ribbon’s existing communications products.
  
  
• Research technical information and design and create software for Ribbon’s next generation of networking products.
• Write software for data plane acceleration technologies such as network processors for use on turn-key or custom hardware platforms.
• Investigate and debug customer issues reported on Ribbon’s installed base of products.
• Work with system-test team to use in-house and third-party test tools to verify functionality and to measure the performance of networking products.
  
  

Experience: 3-7 Years