Principal Engineer, Software Defined Networking
- Remote, United Kingdom
- Lead
- Posted 6 days ago
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Principal engineer building and running SDN for AI cloud workloads, with a focus on OVN and Kubernetes.
About the role
The team works on scalable SDN solutions for GPU-accelerated workloads, covering design, development and production operations.
At a glance
- Pay
- Not stated in the posting
- Remote scope
- Remote, United Kingdom
- Seniority
- Lead
- Skills
- OVS, OVN, OpenFlow, Go, Kubernetes, gRPC
- Posted
- 29 Oct 2026
- Last checked
- 3 Nov 2026
What you will do
- Design and develop SDN control and data plane software using OVS, OVN and OpenFlow.
- Build network orchestration services with gRPC and REST for tenant workloads.
- Contribute to open-source projects like OVN-Kubernetes.
- Develop observability tools for network monitoring and performance analysis.
- Operate and support SDN in large-scale cloud environments.
What they look for
- 15+ years of software development experience for large-scale distributed systems.
- Expert knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow and network protocols.
- Strong programming in C and Go, with scripting in Bash and Python.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and CNIs like OVN-Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD or Flux.
Nice to have
- Contributions to open-source networking projects.
- Experience with hardware acceleration for networking.
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What experience is needed?
It is a lead role. The posting asks for: 15+ years of software development experience for large-scale distributed systems; expert knowledge of OVN, OVS, OpenFlow and network protocols; strong programming in C and Go, with scripting in Bash and Python. Skills it names include OVS, OVN, OpenFlow, Go.
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