63414P-Software Engineer 4

Software Engineer 4 – Datapath Engineer

Juniper is changing what’s possible in networking. We’re going beyond building the networks customers expect — we’re building the networks customers deserve. And the world is taking note. But to continue to excel, we have work to do. Change in our industry is accelerating. To power connections and empower change, we need progressive problem solvers, eternal optimists, and energized personalities. We need people like you!

The SD-WAN engineering team at Juniper Networks works on a highly scalable, distributed SDWAN application that is AI-Driven. You will have the chance to create and implement inventive solutions for the architectural complexities involved in intelligent path routing. You will actively work on project teams with other highly skilled engineers involved in the software development for WAN Assurance – A hyper-scalable cloud AIOps platform. Day to day activities will involve crafting new features, understanding features in a results-oriented product, and proposing solutions that work for our platforms, writing functional and design specifications, programming, unit and integration testing your code, helping review specifications and code for other software engineers on the team, and helping documentation team with the configuration aspects of your features.

About the Role

• Contribute to the design and development of an optimized, high-speed software-based forwarding plane
• Network software running on both hardware appliances and virtual machines that provide zero touch connectivity to Mist-managed network and SD-WAN functions

Responsibilities

• Drive development from technology selection to product delivery, collaborating with product managers and product designers all along the way to give our users the best possible experience
• Identify and improve the efficiency, scalability, operability of the product
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Guiding on technical design

Qualifications

• B.S or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field 
• 7+ years of experience developing software or hardware-based datapaths
• Working experience with DPDK, VPP or other software datapath frameworks
• Solid C++ developer and debugging skills
• Ability to deliver clean, modular code quickly and efficiently
• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• High degree of competency working with multi-threaded development
• Experience developing on Linux operating systems
• Strong communication skills, both in written and verbal, to effectively understand and convey issues and solutions to peers and end users.
• Experience with Agile development process
• Experience with Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration