Senior Software Engineer

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Intel’s software team in Shannon is hiring. We are looking for a fast learning, highly skilled software engineer with strong C skills and experience in open source development. The position offers the opportunity to work with some of the best engineers in the business, and join a high-performing global software team. This award-winning team has steadily grown in size and reputation over the past 5 years, delivering outstanding data plane software innovation to the market.

Qualifications

The role involves:

- Working in a collaborative, distributed environment with a global engineering team to build new features at large-scale.

- Developing open source networking software.

- Contributing to the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) - one of the world’s largest and most active open source network software communities.

- Participating in the full development lifecycle - from concept to release.

- Researching, Designing, building, and testing libraries, APIs, and software applications, primarily in C.

- Performance tuning and optimisation, ensuring the best possible performance is built-in.

- Upholding best practices in engineering, security, and designing for performance.

What does our team offer you?

- Work on cutting edge technologies in a massive growth area for the business.

- Immerse yourself in a world-class software engineering culture.

- Be proud of your work: ownership, autonomy and recognition.

- Gain hands-on expertise from industry leaders in performance tuning tools and techniques.

- Time to deep-dive into your areas of interest to develop your expertise.

- Extensive travel opportunities.

- Professional development - external training and qualifications are encouraged and supported.

- Mentoring opportunities.

- Opportunities to research, innovate, and patent ideas and concepts.

- Enhance your professional credibility in open source communities.

- The opportunity to represent your work at industry conferences.

- A highly competitive compensation package.

Does most or all of the below describe you? If so, we should talk.

- You like to collaborate with global teams - working with engineers, product managers, and management located in multiple locations.

- You enjoy teaching and mentoring other developers to be successful.

- You like formulating new ideas and bringing new software innovation to the market.

- You have a desire to grow your skills and learn from those around you.

- You have a strong engineering background and are interested in networking.

- You have 5+ years industry experience designing, building, testing & shipping high-performance software.

- You have developed open source software at scale.

- You have 3-5 years’ experience of Linux toolchain: Git, GCC, Gerrit, git-send-email, GDB, etc.

- You demand the highest quality standards from yourself and others.

- You have a drive for results and strong customer focus.

- You have hands-on industry experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies.

- You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, Physics or a related field.

Bonus territory if:

- You are familiar with L2/L3 Networking.

- You have experience with Network Function Virtualisation/Software Defined Networking (NFV/SDN).

- You know network applications such as: BRAS, vEPC, vBNG, VNF, OVS.

- You have experience with the Kernel development workflow and/or the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK).

- You are an advocate of DevOps and enjoy automating engineering processes.

- You have a demonstrated record of thought leadership and technical innovation.

Some of the things you will work on:

- Open source networking software - as used in some of the world’s largest cloud, communications and telco companies.

- Rapid prototyping of solutions to customer use cases in high performance networking.

- Software supporting intel’s latest silicon roadmap and cutting edge products.

- High performance network stacks.

Inside this Business Group

The Data Center Group (DCG) is at the heart of Intel’s transformation from a PC company to a company that runs the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. The data center is the underpinning for every data-driven service, from artificial intelligence to 5G to high-performance computing, and DCG delivers the products and technologies"spanning software, processors, storage, I/O, and networking solutions"that fuel cloud, communications, enterprise, and government data centers around the world.

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