Senior Architect – Core Protocol & Systems Engineering

🕒 May 15

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Ness Digital Engineering

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • SaaS • Technology

Ness Digital Engineering is a full-lifecycle digital engineering firm headquartered in New York. The company offers services that encompass digital advisory and scaled engineering capabilities across various industries, including Financial Services, Manufacturing & Transportation, and Media & Entertainment. With expertise in cloud services, data and analytics, and intelligent engineering, Ness has developed a reputation for helping businesses achieve digital transformation. The company operates globally across 11 innovation hubs, utilizing a globally distributed agile development model called Flexshoring. Ness partners with leading technology platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Salesforce to provide specialized solutions. In 2022, the global investment firm KKR acquired Ness Digital Engineering.

📋 Description

• Define architecture for high-performance networking systems involving protocol stacks, data-plane components, and distributed system interactions • Lead design decisions across TCP/IP enhancements, kernel networking stack behavior, and user-space vs. kernel-space trade-offs • Architect scalable threading models, memory architectures, interrupt-driven systems, and performance-sensitive pathways • Oversee system-level performance engineering, including profiling, workload modeling, and scalability analysis • Partner with leadership, product teams, and cross-functional engineering groups to influence long-term roadmap and platform strategy • Mentor technical leads and senior engineers; evangelize architectural best practices • Produce high-quality design documents, technical strategy papers, and deep-dive analysis reports.

🎯 Requirements

• BE/ME in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, MCS • 10+ years in systems, networking, or kernel-level engineering with hands-on architecture ownership of large-scale platforms • Visionary thinking with strong grounding in fundamentals • Excellent communicator able to influence executive and engineering audiences • Master-level 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 large-scale distributed or high-performance networking systems • Strong background in virtualization, cloud networking, and containerized system architectures.