Network Management Plane/Automation Software Development Engineer

About Hedgehog

Hedgehog is an open-source software company bringing networking designed and built for AI to reality.

Hedgehog Values

Team, Trust, Honesty, Fairness, Innovation, Fun and Care.

Hedgehog Benefits

• World-class team
• Fun culture
• Engaging and interesting engineering problems
• Competitive salary
• Startup equity
• Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Unlimited time off
• Work from home (fully remote - we don't care where you are; we care about what you can do)
• Laptop, IT equipment

This is a dream job for a super-deep networking nerd who’s into open networking. If you’re passionate about networking, know routing protocols like BGP, or have experience with network control, management,, and automation, this job is for you.

Help us build an Open Network Operating system that people can trust and consume easily. Work with the Open Source Community, our support organization, and customers to improve user experience and stability of the platform and the features, product issues, and defect detection, identification, and resolution. Contribute to the implementation of fully automated test and certification labs. Help develop extensive automated test cases for our software factory system.

The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer with deep expertise in networking, network management/automation, and hardcore real-time and distributed systems programming. This is a hardcore coding position.

Languages, frameworks, and tools

• Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: Go, Rust, C++, C.
• Working knowledge of Terraform, Pulumi or Ansible is a plus
• Working knowledge of tools like Git, Jira, Jenkins
• Working knowledge of testing frameworks is a plus.
• Experience with NETCONF, YANG, OpenConfig, gNMI is highly desired
• Hands-on experience with implementing device-specific automation framework adaptors/providers is a plus.
• Experience with the Kubernetes control plane is a huge plus.

Network technology experience requirements (3 or more of the below):

• Familiarity with open network operating systems, s.a. SONiC, DENT, Cumulus Linux, Switchdev, Vyatta, etc.
• Familiarity with open routing stacks, s.a. FRR (previously Quagga, Zebra), Bird, KubeRouter, ExaBGP, FreeRouter, XORP ...
• Familiarity with routing protocols, s.a. BGP, OSPF, ISIS, RIP, …
• Working knowledge of Layer 2 technologies s.a VLAN, STP, QinQ, TRILL, LLDP, LAG, MCLAG, LACP, ESI, Multicast
• Hands-on experience and familiarity with overlays s.a. Geneve, VXLAN
• Hands-on experience and familiarity with BGP-based underlays.
• Hands-on experience and familiarity with BGP EVPN
• Hands-on experience with NPL, P4, OpenFlow

Network test tools experience requirements (1 or more of the below):

• Use Keysight, IXIA, Spirent, and other traffic generators to characterize the scale and performance.
• Experience with SFLOW, NETFLOW tools, and other network monitoring tools.
• Strong skills in packet decoding, reading pcap files, and analyzing sniffer traces.

Cloud(-native) networking technology experience (a huge plus):

• Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes control plane
• Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, etc. CNIs)
• Hands-on familiarity with Service Mesh and API Gateways
• Hands-on familiarity with OpenStack networking (ML2, Neutron)
• Hands-on experience with Wireguard, MetalLB, Traefik, Envoy, etc.
   

Other requirements:

• Proven experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products
• Proven experience with debugging customer issues and locally recreating them in the lab
• Strong solution-level exposure to enterprise deployments
• Experience qualifying high-volume, scalable enterprise software

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.