Staff Software Engineer, High-Performance Networking

Alibaba Cloud; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Alibaba Cloud AIS Networking Team seeks experienced engineers to build the next generation platform for datacenter and WAN networks. You will design and implement networking technologies, including white box switches, NIC/DPU/IPU acceleration, and SDN solutions, to meet Alibaba's explosive business needs.

Candidates should be skilled in Ethernet, IP networking, and high-performance software, with C/C++ and/or Python experience; familiarity with Open Source like SONiC is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or developing Ethernet switching or routing software.
• Strong IP networking knowledge and large-scale datacenter/backbone architectures.
• Experience with Linux kernel networking stack or device drivers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement networking technologies for datacenter and WAN.
• Develop and optimize software for NIC/DPU/IPU acceleration and SDN solutions.
• Collaborate with team to meet high-scale reliability and performance targets.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux networking

RDMA

Networking hardware

Tools

SONiC

Job description

Alibaba Cloud AIS Networking Team seeks experienced engineers to build the next generation platform for datacenter and WAN networks. You will design and implement networking technologies, including white box switches, NIC/DPU/IPU acceleration, and SDN solutions, to meet Alibaba's explosive business needs.

Candidates should be skilled in Ethernet, IP networking, and high-performance software, with C/C++ and/or Python experience; familiarity with Open Source like SONiC is a plus.