Software Engineer (Network Platforms)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Network Platforms): Contributing to traffic management functions, optimizing the flow of traffic into, through, and from hirify.global's global network with an accent on Linux network technologies and low level details of the network protocols. Focus on solving problems of massive scale and significance, and shaping the future of reliability and performance on the Internet.

Location: London, UK or Lisbon, Portugal

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to help build a better Internet by protecting and accelerating any Internet application online.

What you will do

• Build and extend systems that carry traffic end-to-end on the egress path of hirify.global network.
• Integrate with the network hardware dataplane until the physical Interconnect to an adjacent network.
• Solve problems of massive scale and significance, shaping the future of reliability and performance on the Internet.
• Collaborate with engineers across the company, from operations teams to the teams building customer-facing products.

Requirements

• Systems-level programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++.
• A solid grasp of BGP and internet routing.
• Relish opportunities to dive into new technologies, and a demonstrated ability to do so.
• Experience in implementing, deploying, and debugging mission-critical distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity vendor switching SDKs.
• Familiarity with SR-MPLS and sFlow, BGP-LS & PCE protocols.
• Experience writing packet-processing software (eg, eBPF at TC or XDP, DPDK)
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.