Senior Network Software Engineer - Scalable Infra & AI

Meta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a software engineer to design, develop, and validate drivers, firmware, and software for network devices and AI workloads in a high‑scale data center environment.

The role emphasizes debugging system‑level issues, optimizing performance, and leading cross‑functional integration with hardware, firmware, and test teams. Collaboration and scalable networking expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years software development experience; PhD with 4+ years acceptable.
• 3+ years with network devices (routers, switches, adapters, load balancers).
• Proficiency in C/C++ and at least one scripting language (Python/Shell).
• Experience with test suites and CI/CD; cross‑functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate drivers, firmware, and software for network devices and AI workloads.
• Debug complex system‑level issues and optimize performance of software stacks.
• Lead integration efforts across partner teams and drive continued development.
• Develop and automate test suites for CI/CD frameworks and components.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and test teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Design and deploy services to manage datacenter switches and forwarding functions.
• Enhance HPC libraries (NCCL, RCCL, OneCCL, MPI) and parallel computing support.
• Create infrastructure to maintain switch state and scalable inter-service communication.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Networking

RDMA RoCE

CUDA OpenCL

Linux Kernel

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or technical field

Tools

Qemu

FPGA Emulation

BSP/Linux

Job description

Meta is seeking a software engineer to design, develop, and validate drivers, firmware, and software for network devices and AI workloads in a high‑scale data center environment.

The role emphasizes debugging system‑level issues, optimizing performance, and leading cross‑functional integration with hardware, firmware, and test teams. Collaboration and scalable networking expertise are essential.