Principal Engineer - SONiC Manageability & Telemetry

The Consensus; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Upscale AI in Bengaluru is seeking a highly skilled gNMI Engineer with strong expertise in SONiC, network programmability, telemetry, and automation to design and maintain gNMI-based management solutions for data center devices.

You will collaborate with SONiC developers, network architects, and automation teams to build scalable observability solutions, work with Python and Go, and tackle protocol-level issues across gRPC, gNMI, and OpenConfig in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Engineering background with 15+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience with SONiC, gNMI, gRPC, OpenConfig, Yang Data Models.
• Hands-on experience in Python and Go (Golang).
• Solid understanding of Linux system commands and Container technologies (Docker).
• Experience with NETCONF, gNOI, OpenTelemetry and data center networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement gNMI-based configuration and telemetry solutions for SONiC switches.
• Integrate SONiC management interfaces with OpenConfig and vendor YANG models.
• Enhance manageability using gNMI Subscribe, Get, Set, and Capabilities; develop streaming telemetry.

Skills

SONiC

gNMI

gRPC

OpenConfig

Yang Data Models

Linux

Networking

Agile development

Debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Python

Go (Golang)

Docker

Git

TCP/IP

Job description

Why join Upscale AI

Upscale AI is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $300M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale AI is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

We are seeking a highly skilled gNMI Engineer with strong expertise in SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), network programmability, telemetry, and automation. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining gNMI-based management and telemetry solutions for SONiC-enabled network devices. The role requires deep understanding of YANG models, OpenConfig, gRPC/gNMI protocols, and modern datacentre networking technologies.

The engineer will work closely with SONiC developers, network architects, automation teams, and cloud infrastructure teams to build scalable network management and observability solutions.

What will you do ?

• Design and implement gNMI-based configuration and telemetry solutions for SONiC switches. Maintain gNMI clients, servers, and related services.
• Integrate SONiC management interfaces with OpenConfig and vendor-specific YANG models.
• Enhance manageability solutions using gNMI Subscribe, Get, Set, and Capabilities operations. Implement streaming telemetry solutions using: gNMI and OpenConfig
• Support integration of SONiC with data center orchestration platforms.
• Troubleshoot and optimize gRPC/gNMI communication for large-scale deployments.
• Contribute to SONiC management framework enhancements.
• Develop automation frameworks using: Python, Go (Golang)
• Debug protocol-level issues involving: gRPC, gNMI, OpenConfig, YANG, perform packet captures and protocol analysis.
• Resolve scalability and performance issues in telemetry systems. Conduct root cause analysis and provide long-term solutions.
• Contribute to SONiC Community.

Who you are?

Must Have Skills:

• Engineering background with 15+ years of software development experience
• Strong experience with: SONiC, gNMI, gRPC, OpenConfig, Yang Data Models
• Hands-on experience in: Python, Go (Golang)
• Solid understanding of: Linux system commands, Container technologies (Docker)
• Experience with: NETCONF, gNOI, OpenTelemetry
• Deep understanding of Networking, Switching platforms, TCP/IP, BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, Data Centre Networking
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent debugging and troubleshooting abilities.
• Ability to work in Agile development environments.
• Self-driven with ownership mindset. Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Good to have

• Contributions to SONiC open-source community.
• Familiarity with SONiC Management Framework.
• Experience with hyperscale datacenter environments.

Where you fall within that range depends on your experience, skills, and impact—we benchmark against internal levels to keep things fair and consistent.

Equal Opportunity

Upscale AI is building a team that reflects a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

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