Software Principal Engineer - SONiC Community & System Validation
Dell Technologies1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Represent Dell System Test Engineering in SONiC working groups, technical forums, design reviews, and community initiatives.
- Contribute validation expertise, automation, and test infrastructure to the SONiC ecosystem and review specifications, RFCs, designs, and roadmaps.
- Validate SONiC features across functional, scale, interoperability, resiliency, and lossless-fabric scenarios, including link-level retransmission.
- Analyze complex issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive triage and closure with engineering and community contributors.
- Advocate best practices in system testing, automation, observability, and quality engineering using data and customer impact.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of SONiC architecture and open, disaggregated networking across AI, data center, and enterprise solutions.
- Extensive system validation experience with VXLAN-EVPN, MLAG, EVPN-MH, ECMP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, SRv6, Layer 2, multicast, DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, and 802.1X.
- Experience in open-source communities, technical forums, or standards bodies, with the ability to independently drive and defend technical positions using data.
- Experience validating RoCE, QoS, DCB including PFC and ECN, lossless Ethernet, link-level retransmission, latency, performance, and resiliency across multiple networking and compute scales.
- Strong Python and test automation skills, including CI/CD workflows, traffic generator testing, packet analysis, telemetry, and northbound interfaces such as CLI, REST, gNMI, and NETCONF/YANG.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering in CSE, ECE, EEE, IT, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, or an equivalent field.
- Hands-on SpyTest and scalable network test automation experience is desirable, as is experience with server and storage infrastructure or fabric orchestration solutions.
- Experience building or using AI agents and AI-assisted workflows with tools such as Claude, Devin, or GitHub Copilot is desirable.
About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies builds PCs, monitors, and peripherals for consumers and enterprises, and provides servers, storage, networking, and edge solutions for data centers. It sells hardware, software, and support services through direct, channel, and online models to organizations of all sizes and the public sector. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, it includes the former EMC storage business and operates globally across client computing and infrastructure markets.