Senior Software Engineer

Build and optimize core software for A10 Thunder platforms by contributing to A10 Advanced Core Operation System (ACOS) development, integration, testing, and production issue support.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development of A10 Advanced Core Operation System (ACOS) across multiple Thunder platforms
• Collaborate across engineering teams and coordinate with PM, QA, and Documentation to deliver features and align on functional and design specifications
• Extend infrastructure capabilities and integrate ACOS with other applications from A10 and third parties using qualified coding practices
• Perform performance tuning across hardware and software to reach maximum traffic throughput
• Validate changes using rigorous test methodologies and expand automation infrastructure code coverage
• Support the customer support organization by investigating customer-reported issues and delivering patches

Requirements

• Strong C/C++ skills for systems development, including multithreading and multicore programming
• Experience with real-time high availability embedded systems running Linux, RTOS, or similar operating systems
• Hands-on experience with multi-threading, multi-core, and real-time high availability embedded system environments
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and common standard IP protocols such as ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, and GRE
• Good understanding of control plane and data plane architecture for networking devices
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or OCI
• Exposure to programming DPDK, BCM ASIC, QAT, or other hardware accelerators (plus)

Key Technologies

• C, C++
• Multithreading, multicore
• Linux, RTOS
• TCP/IP: ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, GRE
• Networking: control plane, data plane
• Cloud: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, OCI
• Acceleration: DPDK, BCM ASIC, QAT, hardware accelerators

Location and Compensation

• Location: San Jose, CA (hybrid)
• Salary: USD 150,000 per year

Education

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in CS/EE/CE or a related field