Principal Distributed Network _Dataplane_ Software Engineer. If you think like a packet, this job is for you!

About Hedgehog

Hedgehog is an open-source software company bringing networking designed and built for AI to reality.

Hedgehog Values

Team, Trust, Honesty, Fairness, Innovation, Fun and Care.

Hedgehog Benefits

• World-class team
• Fun culture
• Engaging and interesting engineering problems
• Competitive salary
• Startup equity
• Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Unlimited time off
• Work from home (fully remote - we don't care where you are; we care about what you can do)
• Laptop, IT equipment

TL;DR: This is a dream job for a super-deep networking dataplane software nerd who’s into open networking and open source data-planes based on VPP, eBPF, DPDK, and other technologies. If you’re passionate about Linux networking and high-performance data-panes love messing around with smartNICs, DPUs, and IPUs,  and think like a packet, you will love this. This is not a DevOps, full-stack programming, javascript, or database position.

• Help us build an Open Network Operating system that people can trust and consume easily. 
• Architect, design, and build a scalable high-performance data-plane.
• Fix bugs, and improve/enhance open source data-plane and routing stacks. 
• Work with the Open Source Community, our support organization, and customers to improve user experience and stability of the platform and the features, product issues, and defect detection, identification, and resolution. 

The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer with deep expertise in networking and hardcore real-time and distributed systems programming. This is a hard-core coding position.

This is a hard-core dataplane engineering position. The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer with deep expertise in networking and hardcore real-time and distributed systems programming. Must think like a packet.

Prerequisites:

• 7+ years of relevant hardcore dataplane and Linux networking experience.. 
• We don't care what degree you have; what matters is what you've done and what you can do.

Languages, frameworks, platforms, and tools:

• Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Rust, or Go.
• Working knowledge and experience with Linux networking
• Experience with high-performance dataplanes VPP, eBPF, DPDK, or VPP.
• Experience with overlay technologies like VxLAN, Geneve, ...
• Experience with XDP
• Experience with dataplane acceleration/offload/execution at smartNIC/IPU/DPU. Specifically,  NVIDIA Bluefield, Pensando/AMD, Intel, Marvell DPUs/IPUs
• Working knowledge of data-plane debug, troubleshooting and testing tools.

Network test tools experience requirements (1 or more of the below):

• Use Keysight, IXIA, Spirent, and other traffic generators to characterize the scale and performance.
• Experience with SFLOW, NETFLOW tools, and other network monitoring tools.
• Strong skills in packet decoding, reading pcap files, and analyzing sniffer traces.

Network technology experience requirements (a huge plus):

• Familiarity with open routing stacks, s.a. FRR (previously Quagga, Zebra), Bird, KubeRouter, ExaBGP, FreeRouter, XORP ...
• Familiarity amd hands-on experience with routing protocols, s.a. BGP, OSPF, ISIS, RIP, … is a huge plus.
• Hands-on experience and familiarity with BGP-based underlays.
• Hands-on experience and familiarity with BGP EVPN
• Hands-on experience with P4, OpenFlow, OpenConfig
• Familiarity with IPTables, OVS, …
• Familiarity with CNIs like Calico, OVN, Multus, Cillium

Cloud(-native) networking technology experience (a huge plus):

• Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, etc. CNIs)
• Hands-on familiarity with Service Mesh and API Gateways
• Hands-on familiarity with OpenStack networking (ML2, Neutron)
• Hands-on experience with Wireguard, MetalLB, Traefik, Envoy, etc.

Other requirements:

• Proven experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products
• Proven experience with debugging customer issues and locally recreating them in the lab
• Strong solution-level exposure to enterprise deployments
• Experience qualifying high-volume, scalable enterprise software

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.