Software Engineer, Network Drivers for High Speed Ethernet NIC

32 Minutes ago • 12 Years +

Network Engineering

Job Description

Software Engineer responsible for designing and development of the network drivers for the High Performance Ethernet NIC. This role involves working closely with architecture, silicon design, and other software/firmware teams to architect, design, and implement scalable, high-performance applications. The engineer will contribute to software design, development, validation, and documentation, and collaborate with QA and customer support for product delivery and issue resolution.

Good To Have:

Experience with SR-IOV / virtio based Virtualization Implementation is desired.
Hands-on experience with KTLS / DTLS Design and Implementation including HW offload of TLS, IPSec HW Offload using Linux XFRM framework are desirable.
Good understanding of Network security threats (DoS / DDoS, MIM attacks), TPM.
Good understanding of RDMA & RoCE protocol areas including the user space Verbs API, Linux RDMA core drivers, RoCE drivers, and the RoCE firmware development is desired.
Good understanding of HW and OS interactions on Multi-host, Multi-Root and Network Partitioning (NPAR) deployments is highly desired.
Exposure to virtualization technologies like Hypervisors, VirtIO, SRIOV, Virtual IOMMU, Memory Management is desired.
CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Git is preferred.

Must Have:

Design and development of network driver for High Performance Ethernet NIC.
Architect, design and implement scalable and high performance applications.
Author and contribute in software design, development, validation, and documentation.
Work with QA team to define high quality test cases, review tests and support release development cycle.
Work closely with Customer Support Engineers on customer field issues and provide timely resolutions.
Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/ Electronics / Electrical Engineering.
Overall 12+ years of experience in Linux Systems programming, Linux kernel, Linux Network Drivers, Linux Kernel Networking, Virtual Switching and Data center Networking.
Experience delivering high-performance NIC drivers in Linux and firmware implementation to support multi-ring architecture.
Strong PCIe NIC background to design optimal Rx/Tx data transfer over PCIe, Control and Data Path implementation of Firewall using iptables including offload of Firewall functionality.
Good experience with one or more of fast path implementations - DPDK, eBPF, XDP.
Excellent programming skills in C, C++ and Python. Proficiency in developing optimized code in both x86 and ARM64 compiler toolchains.
Strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills in a combined Software and Hardware environments.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Ability to efficiently collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.

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Job Description:

Software Engineer responsible for designing and development of the network drivers for the High Performance Ethernet NIC.

Responsibilities:

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and development of the network driver for the High Performance Ethernet NIC.
Work closely with the Architecture teams, Silicon Design teams and other Software / Firmware teams to architect, design and implement scalable and high performance applications
Author and contribute in software design, development, validation, and documentation to deliver high quality, high performance and functionally excellent products.
Work with the QA team to define high quality test cases, review the tests and support through the release development cycle.
Work closely with the Customer Support Engineers on any customer field issues and provide timely resolutions

Requirements:

Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/ Electronics / Electrical Engineering.
Overall 12+ years of experience in Linux Systems programming, Linux kernel, Linux Network Drivers, Linux Kernel Networking, Virtual Switching and Data center Networking.
Experience delivering high-performance NIC drivers in Linux and firmware implementation to support multi-ring architecture.
Strong PCIe NIC background to design optimal Rx/Tx data transfer over PCIe, Control and Data Path implementation of Firewall using iptables including offload of Firewall functionality.
Experience with SR-IOV / virtio based Virtualization Implementation is desired.
Good experience with one or more of fast path implementations - DPDK, eBPF, XDP
Hands-on experience with KTLS / DTLS Design and Implementation including HW offload of TLS, IPSec HW Offload using Linux XFRM framework are desirable.
Good understanding of Network security threats (DoS / DDoS, MIM attacks), TPM
Excellent programming skills in C, C++ and Python. Proficiency in developing optimized code in both x86 and ARM64 compiler toolchains.
Strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills in a combined Software and Hardware environments.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Ability to efficiently collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.
Good understanding of RDMA & RoCE protocol areas including the user space Verbs API, Linux RDMA core drivers, RoCE drivers, and the RoCE firmware development is desired.
Good understanding of HW and OS interactions on Multi-host, Multi-Root and Network Partitioning (NPAR) deployments is highly desired. Exposure to virtualization technologies like Hypervisors, VirtIO, SRIOV, Virtual IOMMU, Memory Management is desired.
CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Git is preferred
Enthusiastic, Quick Learner and passionate about programming
A team player with good Social Skills