Senior Technical Lead

Cradlepoint is seeking a highly skilled Senior Technical Lead with strong networking fundamentals and practical experience in system-level infrastructure and operations/management capabilities. We are looking for an individual with hands-on experience building and supporting robust network systems and platform-level services. You will be a vital member of our agile team, contributing to the full lifecycle of switch and router product development.

What You Will Do: Key Responsibilities

• Develop & test switch router products, ensuring high quality and performance.
• Work effectively in an agile team as both a developer and a tester.
• Be responsible for feature designing, coding, unit testing, feature testing, regression testing, automation test scripts, document writing, and product maintenance.
• Networking & Routing Expertise:
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts.
• Be proficient in Layer 2/Layer 3 protocols, including MPLS, Multicast, OSPF, BGP, VLAN/VTP, etc.
• Possess a solid grasp of routing principles and client-server architecture.
• Exhibit excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills in complex networking environments.
• Infrastructure Services (Infra):
• Gain experience in designing and building system-level services.
• Focus on designing and developing platform services such as system logging, event handling, and health monitoring.
• Manage configuration and system state persistence.
• Implement access control, authentication, and software/service lifecycle mechanisms.
• Work with system-level fault detection and recovery.
• OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance):
• Be familiar with and have experience in developing and integrating management interfaces (CLI, Netconf/YANG, SNMP).
• Support observability, diagnostics, and performance monitoring features.
• Enable external integration with network or element management systems.
• Contribute to fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) functions.

What You Will Bring: Required Qualifications

• Education: Master's / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (CS), Electrical Engineering (EE), Telecommunications, or equivalent.
• Programming: Strong C/C++ programming skills are mandatory.
• Software Development: Proven experience in the software development of L2/L3 Ethernet switches or routers.
• Networking Knowledge: Excellent understanding of networking technologies and related protocols.
• Data Communication: Extensive knowledge in data communication or telecommunications.
• Teamwork & Attitude: Possess independent thinking skills and a quick learning ability. Demonstrate good teamwork and cooperation spirit, professional and personal integrity, proactive, and a positive learning attitude.
• Language: Fluent in English speaking and writing.

Preferred Qualifications (Big Plus)

• Experience with automation testing (with Perl or Java).
• Understanding of agile and scrum methodologies.