Principal Engineer - SONiC Manageability & Telemetry

Why join Upscale AI

Upscale AI is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $300M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale AI is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

We are seeking a highly skilled gNMI Engineer with strong expertise in SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), network programmability, telemetry, and automation. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining gNMI-based management and telemetry solutions for SONiC-enabled network devices. The role requires deep understanding of YANG models, OpenConfig, gRPC/gNMI protocols, and modern datacentre networking technologies.

The engineer will work closely with SONiC developers, network architects, automation teams, and cloud infrastructure teams to build scalable network management and observability solutions.

What will you do ?

• Design and implement gNMI-based configuration and telemetry solutions for SONiC switches. Maintain gNMI clients, servers, and related services.
• Integrate SONiC management interfaces with OpenConfig and vendor-specific YANG models.
• Enhance manageability solutions using gNMI Subscribe, Get, Set, and Capabilities operations.

Implement streaming telemetry solutions using

gNMI and OpenConfig

• Support integration of SONiC with data center orchestration platforms.
• Troubleshoot and optimize gRPC/gNMI communication for large-scale deployments.
• Contribute to SONiC management framework enhancements.

Develop automation frameworks using

Python, Go (Golang)

Debug protocol-level issues involving

gRPC, gNMI, OpenConfig, YANG, perform packet captures and protocol analysis.

• Resolve scalability and performance issues in telemetry systems. Conduct root cause analysis and provide long-term solutions.
• Contribute to SONiC Community.

Who you are?

Must Have Skills

• Engineering background with 15+ years of software development experience

Strong experience with

SONiC, gNMI, gRPC, OpenConfig, Yang Data Models

Hands-on experience in

Python, Go (Golang)

Solid understanding of

Linux system commands, Container technologies (Docker)

Experience with

NETCONF, gNOI, OpenTelemetry

• Deep understanding of Networking, Switching platforms, TCP/IP, BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, Data Centre Networking
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent debugging and troubleshooting abilities.
• Ability to work in Agile development environments.
• Self-driven with ownership mindset. Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Good to have

• Contributions to SONiC open-source community.
• Familiarity with SONiC Management Framework.
• Experience with hyperscale datacenter environments.

Where you fall within that range depends on your experience, skills, and impact—we benchmark against internal levels to keep things fair and consistent.

Equal Opportunity

Upscale AI is building a team that reflects a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

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