Senior Sw Engineer Job in Broadcom

Job Description:

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 3 control plane 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 including both StrataDNX and StartaXGS families

• Hands-on experience BGP/EVPN, VxLAN, Segment Routing, OSPF, ARP and ND6, VRF, ECMP, etc,

• In-depth understanding of Linux kernel, FRR, and Quagga

• 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

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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