Principal Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026.
Position at IP Infusion US Inc.
About IP Infusion
IP Infusion enables disaggregated networking solutions for carriers, service providers and data center operators. We provide network OS solutions for today’s networks to allow network operators to reduce network costs, increase flexibility, and to deploy new features and services quickly. IP Infusion is a solution provider of the OcNOS® and ZebOS® network operating systems to our more than 350 customers and is an integrator and customer service provider for DANOS-Vyatta edition and Commercial SONiC Distribution.
Our global team is growing and we are looking for bold, collaborative and creative people to help us lead the industry transformation to build an adaptable intelligent world. We believe that by embracing diverse ideas, striving for excellence in all that we do, and working together as a unified team, we can accomplish anything. Come do your best work and live your best life as part of the IPI team!
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our US team. This will be Full time opportunity based out of our office in Santa Clara, California. It will be a Hybrid work opportunity.
Responsibilities:
IP Infusion is looking for a motivated and talented individual interested in working as a Principal Engineer.
- Implement solutions in one or more areas related to Segment Routing MPLS and Segment Routing IPv6 including TI-LFA, QoS, BFD and SDN technologies in the IPI Ocnos Network Operating System.
- Design/implement Hardware Abstraction layer code to integrate merchant silicon (and SDKs) to provide seamless forwarding plane solutions which can be leveraged across different OcNOS SKU's.
- Write detailed Design specs, coding, unit and functional testing in Agile and waterfall software development environment.
- Participate in Architectural discussions, Design reviews, peer code review and QA test plan review.
- Work with multi-site Development/Architecture team to implement the above.
- Troubleshoot and debug protocol-related issues in both lab and customer environments.
Qualifications:
- Must have 7+ years of experience in design and development of Layer 2 or Layer 3 Networking protocols.
- Hands-on development experience in Segment Routing domain (SR-MPLS, OSPF-SR, IS-IS SR, TI-LFA, BFD, QoS).
- Hands-on development experience with one or more MPLS protocols (LDP, RSVP, BGP LU)
- Working knowledge of different Layer 2 and Layer 3 services on top of Segment Routing or MPLS transports (L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN)
- Working Knowledge of Segment Routing in the IPv6 data plane is highly desirable.
- Hands on experience with ipv4/ipv6 IP protocols, Access Lists, Route maps and Policies.
- Experience with Forwarding plane software, Broadcom SDK (Jericho+ chipset) highly desired.
- Very Strong C/C++ coding and Debugging skills.
- Familiarity with network testing and debugging tools (GDB, Valgrind, GCov)
- Development experience in multi-threaded environment on Linux.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- B.S or M.S in Computer Science or related field.
Compensation Information:
Please note that the offered rate of compensation will be based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including education, experience, qualifications, the external labor market, and internal equity. Variable incentives may also be offered. The Salary range for this role is $180,000 -$220,000/ annual salary. Salary is negotiable for the right candidate.