Senior / Staff / Principal Engineer – Network Switch Platform Development (Broadcom)

Extreme Networks; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Extreme Networks in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Embedded Software Engineer for platform infrastructure and device driver development in switches/routers. You will work with Linux networking components, ONL/ONLP, IPMI, and PCI/USB interfaces, and contribute to driver and kernel debugging.

Strong C/C++ skills and scripting are required, with familiarity in Docker/VMS and modern build tools. Candidates typically have 4–15 years in networking hardware/software, experience with Broadcom

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech or ME/MTech in Electronics & Communications or Computer Science.
• 4 to 15 years of work experience in networking, embedded software and platform infrastructure.
• Experience with Linux networking components; ONL/ONLP, IPMI familiarity.
• Linux device drivers for PCI, USB, I2C, SPI, MMC/SD; DMA/interrupts in Linux.

Skills

Networking architecture

C/C++ programming

Shell scripting

Python scripting

Education

BE/B.Tech or ME/MTech in Electronics & Communications or Computer Science

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

• BE/B.Tech or ME/MTech preferably in the field of Electronics & communications or Computer Science.
• Work experience of 4 to 15 years in the following areas:
• Good understanding of switch/router H/W and S/W arch and knowledge of networking domain.
• Experience in platform infrastructure & embedded software device driver development in switches/ routers.
• Familiar with - Broadcom MACs and PHYs and Barefoot components and their SDKs
• Familiar with Baseboard management Controller(BMC), IPMI.
• Familiar with Ethernet ports and optics with speeds up to 400G/800G, breakout capabilities, auto-negotiation, FEC.
• Experience in working with Linux networking components; using ONL/ONLP, IPMI, etc is essential.
• Worked on Linux device driver for various devices and interfaces - FPGA/CPLD, I2C, SPI, MMC/SD, PCI, USB, SATA and be familiar with DMA and interrupts in Linux
• Linux build infra and tools including exposure to Linux embedded boot environment - uboot, ONIE, UEFI/BIOS would be helpful.
• Debugging skills - using GDB, Kernel and drivers level debugging and application level debugging.
• Experience in VMs and Dockers with microservices architecture would help.
• Programming in C, C++ and scripting language (shell script and python).
• Source version control tool and environment - GIT and Jenkins.