Senior Network Engineer

Job Description: Networking Engineer 3

About the Role:

We are looking for a Software Networking Engineer with 78 years of experience to design, develop, and optimize networking components for large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have strong fundamentals in networking protocols and hands-on experience building networking functionality within product environments.

You will work closely with platform, infrastructure, and backend teams to build highly scalable, reliable, and performant networking systems that power modern applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop networking components and services for scalable distributed systems.
• Implement and optimize network protocols, routing, and communication layers within software platforms.
• Build and enhance high-performance networking modules in backend services.
• Has a deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP
• Ability to work on all network equipment regardless of the platform viz.. Arista, Dell, Juniper, Cumulus, Bird, etc
• Can solve Network Design Problems using software solutions such as bird, quagga, strongswan, etc
• Can debug flows, pcaps, other logs to solve fuzzy problems
• Has good understanding of Networking protocols actively being used in the Network and can contribute to the design my recommending changes
• Has a deep understanding of how DNS and CDN networks work. Can recommend high level changes to manipulate Internet Routing and behaviour
• Has good Linux and scripting experience. Has a good understanding of Linux networking stack.
• Understands configuration management tools used for Network Infrastructure
• Shows strong intent to improve on Core Networking, Linux, Automation
• Is in sync with industry trends. example : Knows what other similar companies are doing around the world and has an opinion around it.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 78 years of experience in software engineering with strong exposure to networking concepts.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, or Python.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, load balancing, and network security basics.
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with Linux networking stack and debugging tools (tcpdump, netstat, wireshark).
• Experience working with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) is a plus.
• Exposure to container networking (Docker/Kubernetes) is desirable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building high-scale networking systems or infrastructure products.
• Exposure to service mesh, API gateways, or networking libraries.
• Knowledge of network observability, traffic management, and performance optimization.
• Prior experience in product companies or platform teams.

Education:

B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field from a reputed institute.