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SONiC Forwarding Developer

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad / Delhi / Mumbai

Work Mode: Onsite

Contract Duration: 6 Months

DATA CENTER NETWORKING & SYSTEMS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Executive Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced SONiC Forwarding Developer with 10+ years of software engineering expertise in low-level systems programming and networking data plane architectures.

In this role, you will design, develop, and benchmark high-performance forwarding software on the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) operating system. You will collaborate with ASIC hardware vendors and cross-functional teams to engineer line-rate L2/L3 forwarding, ACL, and QoS mechanisms for large-scale data center networks.

1. Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-performance network forwarding software using C and C++, with Python and Go tooling.
• Work with switching silicon/ASIC vendors to implement, validate, and tune hardware-specific forwarding features through SAI.
• Design, implement, and debug forwarding pipelines including ACL, QoS, queue scheduling, and traffic shaping.
• Develop L2/L3 packet switching and routing solutions, including firewall integrations, L2VPN and L3VPN.
• Work with data center networking protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EVPN, and VXLAN.
• Profile and optimize software performance, memory utilization, cache locality, and latency.
• Collaborate with hardware, QA, and network operations teams for testing, debugging, and product delivery.