Dataplane Acceleration & Fast Path - Architect or Tech lead
Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Architect / Technical Lead specializing in high‑performance dataplane acceleration, Linux fast‑path optimizations, and packet‑processing frameworks such as DPDK and OVS‑DPDK. The ideal candidate brings deep experience building low‑latency, high‑throughput networking systems and leading technical strategy across fast‑path architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Own architecture and design of advanced dataplane acceleration solutions involving DPDK, OVS/OVS‑DPDK, OFP/ODP, and kernel bypass frameworks.
- NUMA tuning, CPU pinning strategies, and thread/core‑affinity models to maximize packet‑processing throughput.
- Lead performance benchmarking, latency profiling, bottleneck identification, and continuous system‑level optimization.
- Collaborate with platform teams to ensure CI/CD integration using GitLab / BitBucket.
- Document architectural decisions, test methodologies, and analysis reports for leadership and cross‑functional teams.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in reviews, prototyping, debugging, and system validation.
Qualifications:
Education
- BE/ME in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, MCS.
Experience
- 6–10 years in dataplane engineering, high‑performance networking, fast‑path system design.
Professional Qualities
- Strong analytical and systems‑level thinking.
- Comfortable owning architecture and providing technical direction.
- Strong communication, documentation, and cross‑team collaboration.
- Hands‑on, decisive problem solver capable of driving performance‑critical solutions.
Mandatory Technical Skills
- DPDK, OVS/OVS‑DPDK, OFP/ODP
- NUMA tuning, hugepages, CPU pinning, core affinity
- Performance benchmarking, throughput & latency optimization
- Profiling & debugging: perf, ftrace, pktgen‑dpdk, tcpdump
- CI/CD pipelines: GitLab, BitBucket
Preferred Domain Experience:
- Satellite/teleports or other constrained/managed WAN environments.
- Experience with high-latency/variable-bandwidth links and Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) (e.g. TCP acceleration/spoofing, header/data compression).