Sr System Engineer (Networking)

Highbrow LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Highbrow LLC is seeking a Sr System Engineer (Networking) to join a remote team. The role emphasizes low-level networking, Rust and Go for high-performance software, and deep Linux networking stack expertise.

You will stand up a local VM-based stack, port components to ARM, and collaborate across teams on VM-related features and NIC offloads. A strong systems background and knowledge of DPDK rte_flow are advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience in low-level network programming.
• Proficiency in Rust and Go for high-performance networking software.
• Strong background in Linux network stack internals and packet processing.

Responsibilities

• Set up a local dev environment where the full stack runs in a VM owned by the developer.
• Debug issues, port the stack to ARM, and escalate with other teams as needed.
• Contribute beyond networking to VM disks and VM management; broad domain knowledge is a plus.
• Develop network features, including offloading networking to NICs.
• Familiarity with DPDK rte_flow is a plus; other rte_flow-related work may be involved.

Skills

Low-level networking

Rust

DPDK rte_flow

Go

Linux networking

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/EE/Math

Job description

Sr System Engineer (Networking) (Client: Akamai) [Location: Remote]

Location: Remote

Job Description:

• Experience in low-level network programming.
• Systems Programming: Mastery of Rust (specifically DPDK rte_flow), and Go for high-performance networking software.
• Network and Virtualization Stack: Deep background in Linux network stack internals, socket layers, and packet processing, understanding of the VMs, specifially disks / storage and networking.

Job Responsibilities:

• Standing up a local development environment where the entire stack runs, e.g. running on a single VM owned by the dev himself/herself.
• Need someone who would be ready to debug issues, port the existing software stack to ARM, and often bring identified/issues to other teams proactively.
• This is more than just the networking stack, this could software related to VM disks, VMs themselves. Strong domain knowledge in other areas is not needed, but someone with good general knowledge would be a good fit.
• Network feature development, e.g. doing offloading of the network stack into NICs.
• Using DPDK rte_flow, so experience (specifically rte_flow). DPDK rte_flow experience is not necessarily a must have, but it’s definitely a nice-to-have. Other feature development could be things like adding DHCPv6 support into a networking daemon etc.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.