Broadcom is looking Senior Engineer in San Jose, USA.
Job Description
The Core Switch Group (CSG) at Broadcom is the industry leading provider of networking switch ASICs. CSG team focuses on developing network switch chips and software that power the largest mega scale data centers and cloud operator networks.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing Network Operating System (NOS) on a switch/router platform. You will work cross functionally with marketing, architects, software test, and silicon development to design, implement, document and test high quality software, specifically in the Layer 2 forwarding plane, IP multicast, and network infrastructure areas. This is a unique opportunity to deliver a dis-aggregated software solution with high performance and scale. This position also provides the opportunity to work on the most advanced switching ASICs made by Broadcom.
Responsibilities
· Architect, design, and develop advanced software features and solutions in NOS
· Develop automation testing scripts to ensure the best quality.
· Work with marketing and customer solution team to review customer use cases and apply the requirements into software features
· Write functional and design specifications for the features. Work with internal team and external teams to review and approve the design
· Attend Open Source software community meetings and design forums. Review design specifications and code submitted by other community members.
· Work with the software testing engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems
· Work with customer support engineers to analyze problems found in customer fields and provide timely resolutions
· Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed. Provide technical leadership across features, projects and development tools
Requirements
· BS/MS in Computer Science or similar
· 8+ years of experience in software development of packet forwarding, network OS, embedded software or related fields
· Must have strong skills in programming languages such as C, C++, Python
· Experience working on the latest Broadcom switching ASICs
· Hands-on experience with EVPN VxLAN, Multi-Chassis Trunking, Layer 2 Switching etc
· Familiarity in working in an open source software development environment and tools such as Git, Jenkins, Gerrit, etc.
· Ability to design a solution and implement features independently.
· Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills