Principal System Embedded Engineer (SONiC) job description: design, develop, and maintain features and enhancements for the SONiC NOS platform, contribute to the SONiC open-source community, develop forwarding features on SONiC and underlying hardware, implement code for critical system modules, debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues on SONiC platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of work experience is required.
- With at least 1 year of hands-on SONiC development experience is must.
- Strong experience with the SONiC network operating system and architecture.
- Demonstrated feature contributions to the SONiC open-source community.
- Experience using SONiC SAI for new feature development and integration.
- Experience with datapath forwarding features such as BFD, FIB, RIB, ERSPAN, ACLs, QoS, unicast, and multicast.
- L2/L3 Protocol Stack Development
- Experience with FRR open routing stack
- Experience with Redis DB, Docker
- Experience in Data Plane/Embedded software development/kernel drivers.
- Proficient in Python, C/C++.
- Familiarity with Linux internals and containerized environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Knowledge of network ASICs (e.g., Broadcom, Marvell) and switch hardware architecture.
Benefits
- Health & Wellbeing
- Personal & Professional Development
- Unconditional Inclusion