Principal Software Engineer

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions. Work across team and organizational boundaries to drive clarity and alignment. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Drives, creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Conduct research, stay updated with the latest industry trends, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation. Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Coaching and mentorship of fellow team members. - Effective communication skills and a passion for delivering scalable solutions through a diverse team of engineers. Required Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years software development engineering experience (OR) equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience in software design and coding of Layer3-4 ethernet/IP networking data plane packet forwarding within a programmable NIC (OR) network switches and routers (OR) a packet processing architecture with hardware offload 4+ years of programming experience in C Experience in developing packet forwarding features within SDN Software Defined Networking-data path Experience in developing networking software on DPUs, programmable NICs, or packet processing hardware with offload capabilities. CI/CD Experience: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices for streamlined software development and deployment processes. Scripting for Developer Tools: Proficiency in scripting languages to build and enhance developer tools, automating repetitive tasks and improving workflow efficiency.