Senior Manager of Software Development, DPU Networking and Storage

What you'll do

• Define the initial architecture and phased roadmap for a new DPU networking and storage platform.
• Recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team of systems engineers and technical leads.
• Establish technical strategies for packet processing, storage data paths, and hardware acceleration.
• Translate infrastructure goals into executable engineering plans with clear milestones and success criteria.
• Lead the development of networking data plane capabilities including virtualization, forwarding, and traffic management.
• Define rigorous performance benchmarks for throughput, latency, and resource efficiency across software and hardware.
• Ensure production reliability by integrating observability, fault isolation, and safe upgrade processes into the architecture.
• Manage cross-functional partnerships with networking, storage, security, and hardware teams to resolve technical tradeoffs.

What we're looking for

• Must have 10+ years of experience.
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
• Must have experience leading a greenfield systems or infrastructure initiative from architecture through production delivery.
• Must have experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and coaching.
• Must have deep networking data plane expertise and experience designing or leading high-performance packet processing systems.
• Must have strong knowledge of Linux systems, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Must have experience with network virtualization and core concepts like packet forwarding, routing, and encapsulation.
• Substantial experience designing, delivering, or operating storage systems or data planes (preferred).
• Experience with block storage, NVMe, RDMA, or storage I/O optimization (preferred).
• Experience with DPUs, SmartNICs, P4, or high-performance user-space packet processing frameworks like DPDK (preferred).
• Knowledge of hardware/software co-design, including PCIe, DMA, SR-IOV, and IOMMU (preferred).