Posted 12 June, 2026
Core Protocol & Systems Engineering - Senior Architect
Ness USA, Inc.
Pune,India,India
Full Time
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We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Architect with deep expertise in systems design, protocol stacks, and Linuxbased networking to define the architecture of nextgeneration dataplane and controlplane systems. This role demands exceptional technical depth, architectural leadership, and the ability to drive innovation across engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Define architecture for highperformance networking systems involving protocol stacks, dataplane components, and distributed system interactions.
- Lead design decisions across TCP/IP enhancements, kernel networking stack behavior, and userspace vs. kernelspace tradeoffs.
- Architect scalable threading models, memory architectures, interruptdriven systems, and performancesensitive pathways.
- Oversee systemlevel performance engineering, including profiling, workload modeling, and scalability analysis.
- Partner with leadership, product teams, and crossfunctional engineering groups to influence longterm roadmap and platform strategy.
- Mentor technical leads and senior engineers; evangelize architectural best practices.
- Produce highquality design documents, technical strategy papers, and deepdive analysis reports.
Qualifications:
Education:
- BE/ME in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, MCS.
Experience:
- 10+ years in systems, networking, or kernellevel engineering with handson architecture ownership of largescale platforms.
Professional Qualities:
- Visionary thinking with strong grounding in fundamentals.
- Capable of driving major crossteam architectural decisions.
- Excellent communicator able to influence executive and engineering audiences.
- Detailoriented, methodical, and highly analytical.
Technical Requirements:
- Masterlevel expertise in C/C++, kernel namespaces, and systems programming.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP architecture, routing/switching protocols, and complex packet processing engines.
- Strong command of multithreaded architectures, CPU scheduling, memory models, interrupt design.
- Proven experience architecting largescale distributed or highperformance networking systems.
- Strong background in virtualization, cloud networking, and containerized system architectures.
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).
