SR SW SYSTEMS ENGINEER 9316- Platform Development - Kernel-Device Driver

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work in an engineering team providing software development and testing functionalities in data center networks, network security and enterprise routing solutions.

• Primary responsibilities includes development of features, fixing software issues as well as developing & integrating test automation

• Interface with product management, and customer front-end teams to get requirement clarity and develop design/development strategies, test strategy including topology and test automation - to develop and validate the features end-to-end at scale with network security needs.

• Understand various customer deployments, use-cases and customer found issues to validate customer profiles and develop complex features, and address any gaps in the test coverage

• Design, develop and test end-to-end solutions; and document the contents including performance, scale and security.

• Collaborate with other peer teams to translate software requirements into high-quality test automation suites for functional regression as well as for end to end validation

• Debug, troubleshoot and provide solutions on issues reported - can be from internal stakeholders or end customers

• Support from engineering during customer escalations and help the customers to deploy Extreme Networks’ solutions in their environment.

Specific Skills:

• Excellent C/C++, Golang Programming skills

• Experience in platform infrastructure & embedded software device driver development in switches/ routers.

• Work experience of 4 to 8 years in networking domain.

• Experience in Broadcom MACs and PHYs and Barefoot components and their SDKs

• Experience in port management software with features like auto-negotiation, FEC, link fault detection & signaling, port LED and media support, etc

• Worked on Linux device driver for various devices and interfaces - FPGA/CPLD, I2C, SPI, MMC/SD, PCI, USB, SATA and be familiar with DMA and interrupts in Linux

• Knowledge of linux networking components; using ONL/ONLP, IPMI, etc.

• Linux build infra and tools including exposure to Linux embedded boot environment - uboot, ONIE, UEFI/BIOS would be helpful

• Debugging skills - using GDB, Kernel and drivers level debugging and application level debugging.

Common qualifications

• Candidates should have a Bachelors/Masters degree in Engineering in computer science, Electronics & communications or related ones

• Experience in working on Cloud Native technologies with microservices based architecture using Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

• Good Analytical, Problem Solving and Communication Skills.

• Good knowledge on SDLC Tools like Git, JIRA, Confluence, qTest.