We are looking for an experienced Lead Development & Sustenance Engineer with strong expertise in SD-WAN Appliance, Data Plane, Control Plane, and Platform Sustenance. ?

Key Responsibilities
• Drive complex production/customer issues from triage through root-cause analysis, development, validation, and closure.
• Design, develop, debug, and sustain SD-WAN Data Plane, Control Plane, and platform components.
• Develop fixes and new features with strong focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and backward compatibility.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across packet processing, routing, sessions, policy, HA, configuration, and OS/hardware interactions.
• Improve product observability, diagnostics, logging, telemetry, and troubleshooting tools.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, QA, Product, and Release teams to deliver high-quality releases.
• Contribute to regression prevention, release readiness, technical debt reduction, and product quality improvements. ? Required Skills & Experience
• 10–20 years of software engineering experience in networking, distributed systems, or carrier/enterprise-grade products.




• Solid C/C++ programming and hands-on experience debugging multi-threaded, performance-sensitive systems.
• Deep understanding of IP networking – IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, routing, OSPF, BGP, forwarding, tunneling, NAT, QoS, and packet flows.
• Mandatory: Hands-on experience with LACP, Link Aggregation, and interface management.
• Strong hands-on experience with SD-WAN / Router / Firewall / Networking appliances.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking stack, IPC, system calls, memory, crash/core analysis, and performance debugging.
• Hands-on experience with GDB, packet capture tools, profilers, tracing, logs, telemetry, and automated testing.
• Experience handling production defects, intermittent issues, scale/performance issues, and release-branch fixes/backports.
• Mandatory: Experience with issue triaging using SlashTriage and AI-augmented engineering tools.
• Strong ownership, analytical/problem-solving skills, and excellent communication.

Education:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

📌 Lead Development (Bengaluru)
🏢 Veltris
📍 Bengaluru