Alkira

Software Engineer - Control/Routing

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12 days ago
Remote, United States or San Jose, CA, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$125k - $150k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and debug software for the networking functions powering Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange.
  • Implement features based on requirements from product lifecycle management and sales teams in collaboration with engineering team members.
  • Own assigned work and follow through on reported defects.
  • Debug and resolve production provisioning and live routing issues as part of a mandatory on-call rotation.
  • Work with geographically distributed teams across the United States and India.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science, or equivalent, plus a minimum of 2 years of hands-on networking or routing software development experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Go and C, including Go control-plane services and the C-based FRR routing protocol stack.
  • Deep understanding of networking fundamentals and IP routing; BGP knowledge is preferred.
  • Preferred experience with FRR, ZebOS, or equivalent open-source routing stacks.
  • Preferred Linux networking knowledge, including interfaces, namespaces, the kernel routing and forwarding path, and routing-related tooling.
  • Preferred experience designing and implementing multithreaded systems and performing systematic debugging and root-cause analysis for live routing issues.
  • Preferred fluency using AI for tool development.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud networking, including VPC/VNet constructs, peering, transit gateways, and routing interactions.
  • Preferred expertise in L2/L3VPN, VPN or remote-access technologies such as OpenVPN, ZTNA or zero-trust remote access, and data-path technologies including encryption, NAT, and overlay tunnels.
  • Must be currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and already authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role requiring onsite collaboration at the San Jose, California office.
  • Mandatory on-call rotation with coverage coordinated across the United States and India.
  • No relocation bonus is offered.
  • Interview process includes a coding challenge, hiring-manager screening, and technical interviews.
  • Selected candidates undergo a background screening that may include criminal-record, motor-vehicle-report, or drug screening checks depending on position requirements.
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