Senior Software Engineer - NFV

About Us

Always open. Our code, our culture, our opportunities. Leading open innovation without limits. We are SUSE.

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow.  

We are open in our roots and open in our approach, striving to be the most trusted open innovator in the World. Openness extends beyond our technology. Our vibrant community thrives on diversity and connectivity without borders.

Job Description

About Us

Always open. Our code, our culture, our opportunities. Leading open innovation without limits. We are SUSE.

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data centre to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the ability to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow.  

We are open in our roots and open in our approach, striving to be the most trusted open innovator in the World. Openness extends beyond our technology. Our vibrant community thrives on diversity and connectivity without borders.  

The Role

The Linux Systems Engineering department at SUSE develops and maintains SLE solutions that empowers customers to deploy business-critical workloads on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge.  

In this role, you will be part of a team of passionate engineers working to build and maintain our SLE product line. You will be required to adapt quickly and bring insightful contributions both to design and implementation processes, constantly raising the quality bar while pragmatically adding value to the product offering.
You will be responsible for working with customers and community contributors to identify problems, turn them into good reports, track progress, and provide actual solutions and feedback to our users.

What you’ll do 

• Collaborate with other engineers and architects to ensure that supported upstream community projects are deployable and run efficiently on SUSE supported platforms.

• Develop and maintain internal and customer facing products and services.

• Participate in technical design and code review processes

• Contribute to existing documentation and/or educational content based on product requirements and user feedback 

• Contribute to maintaining a positive, healthy and inclusive learning culture.

• Manage and expand relationships with internal and outsourced partners for quality, product manufacturing and development.

• Review and evaluate product and solution designs and production activities for potential quality issues; provides tangible feedback based on results and root-cause analysis and designs and implements solutions to improve product quality and mitigate risk of failures.

• Provide domain-specific expertise and overall product engineering leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities.

• Drive innovation and integration of new technologies and quality initiatives into projects and activities in the manufacturing engineering organization.

• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.

What you’ll bring

SUSE looks for passionate engineers who are motivated to make an impact for their team and our customers. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a Senior Software Engineer in the domain of networking, network virtualisation, security on Linux distributions with expertise in DPDK, OVS and OVN. . We expect you to have:

• Experience developing software on Linux distributions. 

• Experience with hypervisors and virtualisation management tools like Libvirt. 

• Knowledge of Network I/O virtualisation technologies (SR-IOV, PCI-Passthrough)

• Experience developing systems/applications using one or more general programming languages (e.g. C, Python) utilizing git-based source control management tools, , including the corresponding ecosystem and best practices.

• Willing to engage with open source communities, both our own and those of upstream projects.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a remote team

• A strong sense of ownership, accountability, transparency, and drive

• At least five years of experience developing software.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have

• Experience using services from one or more of the “Big 3” Cloud Service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience working with and contributing to open-source communities

Education and Experience Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent. Typically 7-10 years’ experience.

What We Offer 

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements.  

SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind. 

This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.   

 If you’re a big thinker, obsessed with execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!   

We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.   

Sounds like the right fit for you? Click Apply to submit your resume. A recruiter will contact you if your skills match our current or any future positions. In the meantime, stay updated on the latest SUSE news and job vacancies by joining our Talent Community. 

SUSE Values 

•  We are passionate about customers 

• We are respectful and inclusive  

•  We are empowered and accountable      

• We are trustworthy and act with integrity  

• We are collaborative  

• We are SUSE!      

Job

What We Offer 

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements.  

SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind. 

This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.   

If you’re a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!  

We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.   

Sounds like the right fit for you? Click Apply to submit your resume. A recruiter will contact you if your skills match our current or any future positions. In the meantime, stay updated on the latest SUSE news and job vacancies by joining our Talent Community. 

SUSE Values 

• We are passionate about customers 

• We are respectful and inclusive  

• We are empowered and accountable   

• We are trustworthy and act with integrity  

• We are collaborative  

• We are SUSE!