Control Plane - Senior Dev Protocol Engineer

About the Position

We're seeking a Control Plane - Senior Dev Protocol Engineer with 6+ years experience in networking to join our team in Bengaluru, India, designing scalable network control plane functionality.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with development engineering teams, product management, and customer solution engineering teams to design and develop feature functionality for data center networks, network security, and routing technologies.
• Architect/Design/Develop network control plane functionality for highly scalable networking platforms.
• Collaborate with Product Management and SQA organization to ensure the implementation meets end-customer requirements for interoperability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Develop detailed functional and design specifications.
• Take complete ownership of the product from ideation to deployment.
• Develop & Automate Unit test plans.
• Review customer deployments and address customer-found issues.
• Involve in customer deployments and customer escalations and help the customers to deploy Extreme Networks' solutions in the customer environment.

Requirements

• Must have

  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science/Electronics & Communication/Information Systems.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing features in the Networking domain.
  • Expert programming skills in C/C++.
  • Excellent understanding of Layer 2, Layer 3 (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) and overlay protocols like VxLAN, GRE, MPLS, SPB.
  • Good understanding of Linux operating system internals.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agile development environment.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Highly motivated and self-driven.

• Nice to have

  • GO Lang programming experience.
  • Understanding of Virtualization & Cloud technologies (Virtual Machines, Containers, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with secure coding practices.
  • Good understanding of network security (Encryption, Authentication, DDOS mitigation etc).

We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work with the latest networking technologies and concepts.
• Access to trainings.
• Collaboration with an international team of professionals.

About the Company

Product development for Data Center routing & switching platforms - Major Enterprise Networking equipment provider. Our team: A team of networking enthusiasts willing to contribute to customer success. Technologies used: Networking protocols, Cloud-Native technologies, GitHub, JIRA, traffic generation tools, Windows/Linux servers, network virtualization, network security, network management tools, microservices, and Agile methodologies.

Location

• Bengaluru, India

Employment Type

• FULL_TIME

Experience Level

• Senior

Languages

• English: B2 Upper Intermediate