Slingshot Platform Engineer

Description

The company is a global edge-to-cloud business that helps other organisations connect, protect, analyze and act on their data and applications, from the edge through to the cloud.

The role sits in the High-Performance Networking Platform team, part of the R&D organisation that builds the company's core and new products.

The team is looking for a motivated software engineer with strong technical and interpersonal skills, hands-on experience with large-scale networks and public and private cloud platforms, and enthusiasm for building distributed, large-scale network fabrics. Interest in high-performance computing (HPC) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Shape the strategic direction of the network architecture.
• Build critical functions for the switch and NIC data plane, including drivers that configure, control and monitor custom ASICs, and APIs for the layers above.
• Implement features to specification, with high performance, resiliency and scalability as the main goals.
• Share knowledge with the wider community through written guides and presentations.
• Take part in the wider R&D leadership community across the company.
• Design changes and enhancements to systems software, such as operating systems, compilers, networking, utilities, databases and internet-related tools.
• Review designs and decide which coding, programming and integration work is needed, based on project goals and the overall product architecture.
• Write and run test plans, protocols and documentation for your part of the application, then find, debug and fix issues in the code and its integration.
• Lead a project team of software systems engineers and internal and outsourced development partners to deliver reliable, cost-effective, high-quality work on your assigned system or subsystem.
• Keep management, internal teams and outsourced partners informed about design status, progress and issue resolution.
• Represent the software systems engineering team across all phases of larger, more complex projects.
• Guide and mentor less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems or an equivalent field.
• 5+ years of Linux kernel programming experience.
• Deep expertise in network operating systems.
• Experience designing software systems that run on several platform types.
• A structured approach to testing: writing and running test plans, debugging, and building test scripts and tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• The ability to explain product architectures and design proposals clearly, and to negotiate options with management.

Conditions

Hybrid role: you work from a company office on average 2 days per week.

Based in the United States.

Salary ranges for the role: $111,500 to $211,500 in Colorado; $120,500 to $243,000 in California; $106,000 to $243,000 in Minnesota and Texas.

Ranges are base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Final offers may differ from these ranges based on location, experience, education, training and skill level.

Job level: TCP03.

The estimated application closing date is April 5, 2027.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that makes hiring decisions based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing support covering physical, financial and emotional needs.
• Career development programs, including paths to becoming a subject-matter expert or moving into another division.
• Flexibility to manage work alongside personal needs.