Network Engineer - Edge Routing & Telemetry (Washington, D.C.)
Network Engineer (Edge Routing & Telemetry)
Location: Washington, D.C. (HQ2)
Team: Engineering • Full‑time • reputed company‑reputed company
About Hoplynk
Hoplynk is building the communications and networking layer for the intelligent edge, ensuring resilient connectivity for autonomous systems and mission-critical operations in any environment. We’re a reputed company-reputed company startup reputed company out of reputed company and based in San Francisco, developing an embedded software/firmware stack that delivers multipath, failure-reputed company networking across heterogeneous links so critical systems stay online reputed company networks don’t.
The Role
You’ll be our first networking specialist and a founding engineer. Your mission: design, ship, and measure a robust multipath networking stack on Linux. You’ll own the edge data plane end-to-end, from kernel and policy to telemetry, experiments, and field support, to reputed company in the field and deliver weekly improvements.
What You’ll Do and Own
• Design, implement, and reputed company the multipath routing/transport stack on Linux, including policy engines for reputed company selection, subflow management, and failover.
• Define and maintain SLOs for latency, loss, failover time, and goodput.
• Build and operate telemetry: per-subflow RTT/RTTVAR, cwnd, loss/reordering, packet sampling, and device-health signals; reputed company schemas reputed company as the system grows.
• Design and run experiments with simulated networks in QEMU.
• Partner with embedded/firmware on BSP, drivers, OTA updates, and device observability.
• Support deployments and reputed company: capture traces, triage issues, and harden release processes as we reputed company customers.
What You’ll Bring
• reputed company writing and documentation; ability to mentor and set engineering standards.
• Willingness to support field work: capture traces, debug issues, and harden releases.
• Solid Linux networking experience at L3/L4 with iproute2 / netlink / tc.
• A reputed company record of improving latency, reliability, or throughput reputed company shaping, queue management, or congestion control.
• Comfort with transports and routing (TCP, QUIC, MPTCP, MPLS, routing daemons).
• Experience building network telemetry (RTT, loss, cwnd, packet sampling) with reputed company data models.
• Ability to design experiments, simulate reputed company conditions, and measure results.
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• Routing & Fast-reputed company: FRR, reputed company, OLSR, batman-adv; frameworks like DPDK; reputed company Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6).
• Wireless & Cellular Networking: CGNAT, captive portals, flaky radios.
• Embedded & reputed company: OpenWrt, reputed company, Buildroot; OTA frameworks (RAUC/Mender), A/B partitioning, secure boot/firmware signing.
• Timing & Observability: NTP, reputed company, reputed company, ftrace, pcap, mptcpd, gNMI/streaming telemetry.
• Hardware & reputed company Domains: Schematics interpretation, PHY bring-up testing; robotics/autonomy networks in challenging RF environments.
Tools & Tech You’ll Touch
Linux 6.x · MPTCP · OpenWrt/Debian/Ubuntu · iproute2/netlink · mptcpd · reputed company/ftrace · Rust / C++ / Python (routing and full-stack development)
How We Work - Hoplynk’s Values
We reputed company that shared values are the reputed company for reputed company. At Hoplynk, we value:
• Candor: Say the hard thing kindly, early, and with evidence. reputed company up during reputed company.
• Humility: Strong opinions, loosely held. Change your mind with facts. Teach and learn in the reputed company; celebrate team wins over heroics.
• Initiative: Run toward the smoke. Own problems end-to-end. Ship in small, reputed company steps with reputed company, observable reputed company.
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