Senior Software Engineer, High-Performance SDN with DPUs

Moonlite AI; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6% 401(k) match

Fully covered health insurance premiums

Startup equity

Job summary

A leading AI infrastructure company seeks an experienced software engineer to build software-defined networking systems for demanding AI workloads. This role involves collaborating on scalable SDN orchestration systems and optimizing networking for distributed computing. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software engineering, deep networking knowledge, and programming skills in Go or Python. The position offers competitive compensation and generous benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with experience building network platforms.
• Strong familiarity with Kubernetes networking architecture.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and routing protocols.
• Experience with Go and Python is highly valued.
• Experience with Linux networking stack and Open vSwitch.
• Familiarity with DPU architectures preferred.
• Understanding of low-latency networking requirements for distributed computing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with infrastructure to design SDN orchestration systems.
• Implement networking systems for research computing environments.
• Develop platform capabilities for managing Bluefield-3 DPUs.
• Build enterprise-grade network isolation using VPCs and VXLAN.
• Optimize network paths for RDMA and GPU-to-GPU communication.
• Develop APIs for network resource management.
• Implement network monitoring and troubleshooting systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Kubernetes networking

Networking fundamentals

Programming in Go and Python

Linux networking

DPU/SmartNIC architecture

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

NVIDIA Bluefield DPUs

Open vSwitch

Terraform

FastAPI

gRPC

Job description

A leading AI infrastructure company seeks an experienced software engineer to build software-defined networking systems for demanding AI workloads. This role involves collaborating on scalable SDN orchestration systems and optimizing networking for distributed computing. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software engineering, deep networking knowledge, and programming skills in Go or Python. The position offers competitive compensation and generous benefits.