Software Engineer, Networks

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with network architect to build and deploy user segment of space Internet service
• Work with other teams to develop and integrate software for ground and space systems
• Take ownership of the design and development of all network control-plane and SDN controller software stack
• Design and build a network simulator for the Internet in space service
• Develop tools for the network operations team to obtain telemetry and enable monitoring of Kepler’s network infrastructure
• Develop tools for the network operations team to maintain and configure programmatically Kepler’s network infrastructure

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technology related field or equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree
• Self-starter mentality with the willingness take on new tasks with minimal oversight
• Familiarity with reading RFC network protocol specifications and developing software to conform to the standard
• Deep experience with L2, L3, and L4 technologies, routing, transport, and security protocols
• 3+ years experience with systems programming in C/C++
• 3+ years experience in automating network tasks via Bash/shell or Python
• 5+ years working in a Linux/Unix environment, including Linux kernel networking concepts (routing, bridging, etc.)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and other DevOps tools and concepts

Bonus Points:

• Experience with P4 programming language
• Experience in using data-plane acceleration frameworks such as VPP, DPDK, XDP/eBFP, etc.
• Experience with contributing on open source projects such as Free Range Routing (FRR)
• Experience using software traffic generators such as Cisco’s T-Rex, pktgen-dpdk, etc.
• Experience with network simulators such as Eve-NG, mininet, or Containerlab
• Experience designing SDN controllers
• Experience using continuous integration testing systems such as GitLab CI