Director of Engineering

Job Description

Work with customer and product teams to understand and prioritize new requirements Develop a holistic understanding of individual employee skill sets and drive resource allocation for customer requirements Help drive recruiting process both in terms of attracting new talent as well as defining and streamlining the recruitment process Continuous Process Improvement: Solicit feedback, drive discussion and implement process and workflow improvements Provide technical guidance and mitigation for engineering projects Build 1:1 rapport with engineers, help identify and fulfill personal aspirations by aligning with larger team goals. Strong ability to plan, execute and deliver multiple projects across worldwide sites Experience with rapidly growing engineering organizations in all aspects of people, resources, tools, and more. Education/Qualifications BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent degree Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. 5+ years of experience leading and managing distributed engineering teams involved in creating complex software products 10+ years of relevant experience in managing very senior technical talent in some of the following areas : Networking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, BFD, MLAG, EVPN, VxLAN, SR-MPLS, SRv6, L3VPN Test Harness like Robot framework, Jinja2 Familiarity network merchant silicon chipsets and whitebox platforms Software development of Network Data Path (Linux, virtual and ASIC) Virtualization technologies like SR-IOV, Intel DPDK, FD.io, NSX, OVS High Availability, ISSU, Linux networking Debian Build/Packaging, Linux Kernel, Kernel Networking Stack Experience with big data distributed systems (technology: hadoop, kafka, MongoDB, druid, elasticsearch, spark, influxdb, redis) DevOps experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or other cloud service Manageability frameworks such as Yang/XML Benefits Generous compensation packages including equity Medical Insurance Parental Leave Sabbatical leave (After 4 years of service)