Senior Software Development Engineer (SDN Routing)

Location: Based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA; U.S. citizenship, nationality, permanent residency, refugee status, or asylum status is required under export control regulations.

Salary: $248,830–$348,361.65 base pay for California and Washington applicants.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable space vehicles and space-based systems, including the TeraWave satellite communications network.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and operate routing control-plane software for satellite, gateway, and terrestrial networks.
• Model current and predicted connectivity across satellites, optical links, gateways, and Points of Presence.
• Implement path-computation algorithms that account for latency, capacity, availability, congestion, policy, and resource constraints.
• Translate network intent and computed paths into forwarding state and develop behavior for topology transitions, degraded links, and failures.
• Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems.
• Build simulation, emulation, and testing capabilities while diagnosing control-plane, data-plane, and physical-topology issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• At least five years of professional software development experience in a technical domain.
• Experience developing software for networking, distributed systems, infrastructure, or embedded systems.
• Experience with IP routing, packet forwarding, convergence, failure recovery, or traffic engineering.
• Production software development experience with C++, Rust, Go, Java, or Python.
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. under applicable export control regulations.

Nice to have

• Experience with routing protocols, SDN controllers, path-computation systems, or network-management software.
• Experience with satellite, aerospace, mobile ad hoc, wireless mesh, or optical networks.
• Knowledge of IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, Segment Routing, PCEP, TI-LFA, or ECMP.
• Experience with centralized route computation, distributed routing, fast reroute, local protection, or time-varying network topologies.
• Experience programming forwarding behavior on network processors, switching ASICs, embedded systems, or programmable data planes.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, trust, equality, and teamwork are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid parental leave are available.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5% and an Education Support Program.
• Regular employees may receive stock options.
• Up to four weeks of paid time off and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Background checks are required, with additional checks for certain job profiles.