Sr. Software Engineer - Switch Design

Supermicro•San Jose, CA

30d

About The Position

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us. Job Summary: Supermicro is seeking an experienced and exceptional Application Software Engineer to work on web-based applications for business process automation. This is a key role that will give you the opportunity to expand your existing knowledge in programming.Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned): Adopting existing firmware code and work on new or different switch hardware platforms. Developing and implementing low-level software that directly interacts with switch hardware platforms. Debugging and optimizing ported F/W to ensure proper functionality/performance/stability on the platforms. Creating and maintaining documentation for ported F/W and related process. Collaborating with hardware engineers and other software teams to ensure seamless integration of ported F/W. Performing code reviews and adhering to F/W development best practices. Troubleshooting F/W issue cross different switch hardware configuration. Monitor progress across the group's responsibility for the feature area Work across different HW, FW and SW departments/groups to identify and resolve technical issues Co-work with peer SW & HW Product Management teams, designers and other development team to define our product strategy around remote management Perform other tasks as needed within the business

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline is preferred; Master's degree in management is a plus
A minimum of 5 years of experience in networking switch products development or management, or other similar technical position
Demonstrated experience in managing support questions around Workload Management
Strong technical comprehension of networking switch technology
Experience in building switch products
Excellent verbal and written communication and leadership skills
Demonstrated ability to manage terms of peers across a functional team
Ability to multi-task against disparate project and timelines to provide comprehensive support and completion to all the moving parts of each project
Strong technical, people and organizational skills
Comfortable with architecting solutions along with Fellows and Architectures from Tier 1 organizations across the Globe.
Ability to proactively identify upcoming risks, issues and bottlenecks

Nice To Haves

It's a nice attribute if you have capabilities to contribute and work with Industry Standards body such as DMTF and influence decisions behalf of Supermicro

Responsibilities

Adopting existing firmware code and work on new or different switch hardware platforms.
Developing and implementing low-level software that directly interacts with switch hardware platforms.
Debugging and optimizing ported F/W to ensure proper functionality/performance/stability on the platforms.
Creating and maintaining documentation for ported F/W and related process.
Collaborating with hardware engineers and other software teams to ensure seamless integration of ported F/W.
Performing code reviews and adhering to F/W development best practices.
Troubleshooting F/W issue cross different switch hardware configuration.
Monitor progress across the group's responsibility for the feature area
Work across different HW, FW and SW departments/groups to identify and resolve technical issues
Co-work with peer SW & HW Product Management teams, designers and other development team to define our product strategy around remote management
Perform other tasks as needed within the business