Staff Software Engineer-Sunnyvale, CA

Alibaba Cloud; Sunnyvale (CA); Presencial; USD 133.000 - 220.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

C/C++

Python

Linux networking

RDMA

Networking hardware

Herramientas

SONiC

Descripción del empleo

Alibaba operates hyper-scale networks that serve hundreds of millions of users around the world. Alibaba Infrastructure Service(AIS) Networking Team is responsible for keeping the network running reliably, efficiently and at scale. We are looking for experienced and passionate engineers to build the next generation platform for our datacenter and wide-area networks. Candidates should be passionate about solving challenging networking problems, enjoy working in a collaborative environment and have excellent communication skill.

You will be part of a fast-paced team that design and implement networking technologies and solutions for Alibaba's explosive business needs. This includes white box switches that are specially designed for Alibaba's datacenter network, hardware acceleration based on smart NIC/DPU/IPU, high performance network packet processing platform, networking protocol design and optimization, datacenter and backbone network SDN solutions etc.

Job Requirements

• Experience in the design and development of Ethernet switching or routing related software or distributed systems software, familiar with open source networking software such as SONiC.
• Understanding of IP networking, familiar with large scale datacenter and backdone architecture, and related networking protocols such as EVPN/VXLAN/BGP/SRv6.
• Familiar with networking hardware (NIC and switch ASIC), and related software development.
• Knowledge of one or more of C/C++, Python. Experience in developing and optimizing Linux kernel networking stack or networking device drivers.
• Experience in high performance networking protocols such as RDMA.
• Ability to design a solution and implement features independently.

The ideal candidate should have at least one of the skills listed above. People with people management or project leader experience is preferred.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $133,200 and $219,600/year. However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.