2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement the high-performance dataplane for Blaxel’s VPC using VPP, DPDK, eBPF, XDP, and Rust.
- Build and extend distributed control-plane systems in Go and Rust, including IPAM and routing services.
- Develop Rust microservices with sub-millisecond latency and multi-Gbps throughput.
- Extend Rust load balancer and HTTP proxies for global deployment.
- Operate networking workloads on bare-metal clusters with large-scale IPv6 addressing.
- Build testing, simulation, and benchmarking frameworks for networking components.
- Instrument networking systems with metrics and observability tools.
- Debug complex networking issues across multiple layers.
- Collaborate with compute and storage teams to ensure performance and reliability.
- Evolve networking strategy to optimize for AI-native traffic patterns.
Requirements
- 3+ years in systems engineering, distributed systems, networking, or infrastructure software roles.
- Strong proficiency in Rust, Go, or both.
- Experience with SDN or cloud networking systems.
- Strong understanding of IPv6, routing, and overlay technologies.
- Hands-on experience with DPDK, VPP, eBPF, or XDP.
- Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and networking.