Ecosystem Lead, P4 (Contractor)
Ecosystem Lead, P4 (Contractor)
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Job Description
We are looking for an individual to promote nurture and grow the P4 ecosystem helping the community advance the underlying technologies and helping drive adoption by onboarding new collaborators through education training and community engagement.
This is a technical role ideal for an individual from a hands-on software engineering background in networking who wants to move into a community-facing role leveraging their deep technical skills.
Responsibilities:
Identifying strategies to drive adoption of P4 in industry working closely with P4 members and other stakeholders
Driving evolution of the P4 specifications and software working closely with the P4 TST and Working Groups
Growing the P4 community by organizing events including workshops developer training etc.
Recruiting new project members and helping align P4s work with their goals
Encouraging community members to take on leadership roles in the P4 project
Writing and publishing content to explain and promote the P4 language
Managing the project budget working closely with the P4 Governing Board
Coordinating with LF staff on project management
Travel: up to 10%
Qualifications :
Prerequisites:
Strong technical understanding of the foundational technologies of networking (L2/L3 BGP IPv6 etc.)
Passion and ability to learn position write about and present programmable networking and P4
5 years in the networking industry in a software development or research role
Desire and ability to write about and promote technology products
Enthusiasm for SDN and P4 technologies
Strong teaching and explanatory skills enjoys teaching
Extrovert - preference for communicating presenting writing posting engaging ...
Entrepreneurial spirit willing to be hands-on and take charge
Desirable Skills and Background:
Already part of the networking and/or P4 ecosystems
Community engagement experience (e.g. user groups developer groups conference presentations etc.)
An understanding of the networking market and ecosystem from silicon to system and from cloud to telco operators
Work experience with a smart NIC vendor virtual switching solutions or overlay networking
Research background on novel uses for P4
Experience contributing to open source projects
Passport and/or Visa enabling unencumbered international travel
Suitable Backgrounds:
Software programmer building datacenter or cloud-facing networking solutions
Researcher working on programmable networking (recent graduates with advanced degrees and significant hands-on programming experience to be considered)
Desire to get into community and developer relations
Tenure with a company leveraging P4 or programmable networking silicon Smart NIC or DPU
Additional Information :
Salary $100000 - $250000 USD
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Contract
Employment Type
Remote
