Ness Digital Engineering

Dataplane Acceleration & Fast Path - Architect or Tech lead

Ness Digital Engineering  •  Pune, IN (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Architect / Technical Lead specializing in high‑performance dataplane acceleration, Linux fast‑path optimizations, and packet‑processing frameworks such as DPDK and OVS‑DPDK. The ideal candidate brings deep experience building low‑latency, high‑throughput networking systems and leading technical strategy across fast‑path architectures. Responsibilities:
  • Own architecture and design of advanced dataplane acceleration solutions involving DPDK, OVS/OVS‑DPDK, OFP/ODP, and kernel bypass frameworks.
  • NUMA tuning, CPU pinning strategies, and thread/core‑affinity models to maximize packet‑processing throughput.
  • Lead performance benchmarking, latency profiling, bottleneck identification, and continuous system‑level optimization.
  • Collaborate with platform teams to ensure CI/CD integration using GitLab BitBucket
  • Document architectural decisions, test methodologies, and analysis reports for leadership and cross‑functional teams.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in reviews, prototyping, debugging, and system validation.
Qualifications:Education
  • BE/ME in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, MCS.
Experience
  • 6–10 years in dataplane engineering, high‑performance networking, fast‑path system design.
Professional Qualities
  • Strong analytical and systems‑level thinking.
  • Comfortable owning architecture and providing technical direction.
  • Strong communication, documentation, and cross‑team collaboration.
  • Hands‑on, decisive problem solver capable of driving performance‑critical solutions.
Mandatory Technical Skills
  • DPDK, OVS/OVS‑DPDK, OFP/ODP
  • NUMA tuning, hugepages, CPU pinning, core affinity
  • Performance benchmarking, throughput & latency optimization
  • Profiling & debugging: perf, ftrace, pktgen‑dpdk, tcpdump
  • CI/CD pipelines: GitLab, BitBucket
  Preferred Domain Experience:
  • Satellite/teleports or other constrained/managed WAN environments.
  • Experience with high-latency/variable-bandwidth links and Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) (e.g. TCP acceleration/spoofing, header/data compression).
Ness Digital Engineering

About Ness Digital Engineering

Ness Digital Engineering is a global provider of Intelligent Data and Software Engineering services, specializing in data, AI, and cloud-powered solutions that drive innovation and deliver measurable business outcomes. With over 25 years of engineering expertise and our proprietary data and software platforms and accelerators, Ness helps enterprises modernize systems, accelerate product development, and achieve scalable impact with speed and precision.

Our differentiation lies at the intersection of Industry domain and Technology. We focus on clients across financial services, technology and ISVs, Media & Entertainment, manufacturing, transportation and retail. Ness is known for its delivery excellence, deep domain knowledge, and product engineering expertise. Ness Digital Engineering is a portfolio company of KKR, a leading global investment firm.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
1999
Website
ness.com
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