Senior System Software Engineer, Software Defined Networking
NVIDIA Corporation (company site, opens in a new tab)5+ yrsBengaluruRemoteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
Posted on 12 Sept
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About This Role
- Design, develop, and operate scalable multi-tenant cloud SDN control and data plane software including OVS, OVN, and OpenFlow.
- Own end-to-end observability and operational excellence for the SDN stack through monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and incident management.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual network orchestration and services supporting BMaaS, VMaaS, and Kubernetes workloads with secure, high-performance gRPC and REST services.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software development for large-scale distributed environments.
- Expertise in OVN, OVS, OpenFlow, Kubernetes CNIs (specifically OVN-Kubernetes), with strong programming skills in C, Go, Bash, and Python.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux) and designing/operating CI/CD pipelines; strong knowledge of datacenter routing, switching, and Linux networking.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven track record in building and operating complex SDN solutions in production-scale cloud environments, including strong SRE/DevOps experience with incident management and reliability.
- Demonstrated contributions to relevant open-source projects like OVS, OVN, or Kubernetes networking components, indicating deep domain expertise.
- Experience with hardware acceleration for networking (GPU, DPU), multi-cloud deployments, and observability toolchains (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger) to support production readiness and operational tooling.