DriveNets is a leader in high-scale disaggregated networking solutions. Founded in 2015, DriveNets modernizes the way service providers, cloud providers, and hyperscalers build networks. Supporting the largest network in the world, more than half of AT&T’s backbone traffic runs on DriveNets’ Network Cloud open disaggregated architecture.
Having raised $587 million in three funding rounds, DriveNets is disrupting the networking market with high-scale architectures and cloud-native platforms. We are seeking people who want to make an impact on the world’s leading communication networks and have experience building large-scale distributed systems.
The Group
The Management Plane group builds high-performance customer interfaces and core frameworks for configuring and monitoring large-scale distributed systems.
This includes a distributed transaction framework, large-scale operational state monitoring and telemetry, and APIs for interacting with the system’s configuration and runtime state.
The group serves both external customers and internal R&D teams that integrate their features into the product.
Meeting the system’s scale and performance requirements often requires more than incremental improvements. The group frequently undertakes large-scale improvements, deep optimizations, and systemic architectural redesigns to ensure performance and reliability in a resource-constrained environment.
The Role
We are seeking an exceptional software engineer with the imagination to challenge existing designs and the discipline to implement those ideas in production-quality systems.
This role requires a passion for software development, strong system design skills, and deep expertise in coding and debugging. The ideal candidate is also a natural mentor, capable of guiding and developing junior engineers.
This position is for a Principal Software Engineer with extensive experience in databases and systems algorithms for distributed data platforms (databases, replication, HA, data-traversal, deduplication), who can lead the design and implementation of large, complex initiatives end to end.
Requirements- 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, building and maintaining production systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design and implementation of complex systems.
- Proven experience designing and implementing classical algorithms (not AI/ML) and data structures in production environments.
- Strong experience with database systems, both SQL and NoSQL, including schema design and performance considerations.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and programming languages and apply them effectively to complex systems.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
- Experience with Rust — an advantage.
- BSc in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production systems
- Extensive experience in databases and systems algorithms for distributed data platforms (replication, HA, traversal, deduplication)
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design and implementation of complex systems end-to-end
- Proven experience designing and implementing classical algorithms and data structures in production environments
- Strong experience with database systems (both SQL and NoSQL), including schema design and performance considerations
- Strong proficiency in C++
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with Rust
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and programming languages and apply them effectively
- BSc in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience mentoring and developing junior engineers
What We Do
DriveNets is a rapidly growing software company that has created a radical new way for service providers and hyperscalers to build their networking infrastructure. DriveNets Network Cloud and DriveNets Network Cloud-AI are new innovative networking solutions that apply the cloud architectural approach to high-scale networking. They bring together the scalability of standard Ethernet Clos architecture with the high performance and reliability of service provider networking, delivering optimal networking performance, scale and cost structure for service providers and hyperscalers. Founded by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky, two successful telco entrepreneurs, DriveNets Network Cloud is the leading open disaggregated networking solution based on cloud-native software running over standard white boxes. Over three funding rounds, DriveNets raised $587 million. Its solutions are used by tens of service providers globally and are in proof-of-concept and lab trials at dozens of operators and hyperscalers, consistently ranking #1 in trials for breadth of capabilities and solution quality. AT&T, the largest backbone in the US, deployed DriveNets Network Cloud across its core network, and DriveNets is currently transporting more than 52% of AT&T’s core network traffic. DriveNets is engaged with over 100 Tier-1 operators and cloud-providers on large projects in North America, Asia and Europe.
