Senior Platform Software Engineer – IPsec/VPP/Kubernetes
Bangalore · 8-12 years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8-12 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Bangalore
About the role
- The Senior Platform Software Engineer will focus on network platform development, feature implementation, and system integration within networking and telecom domains.
- The role involves code-level debugging, issue resolution, and contributing to AI-assisted engineering initiatives to automate log analysis and improve root-cause identification.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug, integrate, and maintain networking/platform software involving IPsec, VPP, StrongSwan, and Linux networking.
- Develop and enhance networking features involving IPsec/IKE, routing, traffic selectors, SPD/SAD, tunnels, and traffic segregation.
- Work with existing codebases to understand implementation flows, modify code, implement fixes, and resolve defects.
- Debug complex networking scenarios across multi-tunnel, multi-network, VLAN, container, and Kubernetes environments.
- Perform end-to-end troubleshooting and RCA across application, container, networking, VPP/DPDK, and Linux kernel layers.
- Develop and enhance AI-assisted tools for automated log analysis and root-cause identification.
- Collaborate across teams to drive complex issues through resolution.
Requirements
- 8–13 years of hands-on software/platform development experience, preferably in networking or telecom.
- Strong hands-on experience with IPsec, VPP, and StrongSwan, including implementation, debugging, and integration.
- Strong Linux/Kernel networking expertise, including packet flow, CPU/IRQ, performance, and system-level debugging.
- Hands-on experience with Docker/Kubernetes networking, including CNI/Multus, SR-IOV, pod/service networking, and cluster debugging.
- Strong C/C++ programming and debugging skills.
- Python/scripting skills for automation, analysis, and development of engineering tools.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with VPP/DPDK and high-performance networking.
- Exposure to AI/LLM-based developer tools or coding assistants.
- Interest or experience in applying AI to software development, log analysis, debugging, and RCA automation.
- Experience with automation, log-processing, or internal debugging/analysis tools.
Skills
- IPsec
- VPP
- StrongSwan
- Linux
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- C
- C++
- Python
- DPDK
- CNI
- Multus
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- SR-IOV
