Director of Engineering

2 days ago

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Arrcus Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year

Director of Engineering
Location:- Chennai, India

About Arrcus
Arrcus was founded to enhance business efficiency through superior network connectivity. The Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE) platform offers best-in-class networking with the most flexible consumption model at the lowest total cost of ownership. The Arrcus team consists of world-class technologists who have an unparalleled record in shipping industry-leading networking products, complemented by industry thought leaders, operating executives, strategic partners, and top-tier VCs. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, go to  or follow @arrcusinc..
We offer a variety of roles in software, hardware, and cloud environments. We are looking for people who are self-motivated, creative, and agile. You will work closely with the top-notch talent in Arrcus in redefining networking. Prior work experience in a venture-backed company is a big plus.

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Director of Engineering to take on the responsibility of building our Chennai development centre. This role involves leading engineering teams, scaling organizational capabilities, driving execution excellence. The ideal candidate will be hands-on, people-focused, and capable of fostering a high-performance, innovation-driven culture.We offer a variety of roles in software, hardware, and cloud environments. We are looking for people who are self-motivated, creative, and agile. You will work closely with the top-notch talent in Arrcus in redefining networking. Prior work experience in a venture backed company is a big plus.

Responsibilities
  • Work with customer and product teams to understand and prioritise new requirements.
  • Develop a holistic understanding of individual employee skill sets and drive resource allocation for customer requirements
  • Help drive the recruiting process both in terms of attracting new talent as well as defining and streamlining the recruitment process
  • Continuous Process Improvement: Solicit feedback, drive discussion and implement process and workflow improvements
  • Provide technical guidance and mitigation for engineering projects
  • Build 1:1 rapport with engineers, help identify and fulfil personal aspirations by aligning with larger team goals. 
  • Strong ability to plan, execute and deliver multiple projects across worldwide sites
  • Experience with rapidly growing engineering organizations in all aspects of people, resources, tools, and more.
Education/Qualifications
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent degree
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
  • 5+ years of experience leading and managing distributed engineering teams involved in creating complex software products
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in managing very senior technical talent in some of the following areas :
    • Networking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, BFD, MLAG, EVPN, VxLAN, SR-MPLS, SRv6, L3VPN
    • Test Harness like Robot framework, Jinja2
    •  Familiarity network merchant silicon chipsets and whitebox platforms
    • Software development of Network Data Path (Linux, virtual and ASIC)
    • Virtualization technologies like SR-IOV, Intel DPDK, , NSX, OVS 
    • High Availability, ISSU, Linux networking
    • Debian Build/Packaging, Linux Kernel, Kernel Networking Stack
    • Experience with big data distributed systems (technology: hadoop, kafka, MongoDB, druid, elasticsearch, spark, influxdb, redis)
    • DevOps experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or other cloud service
    • Manageability frameworks such as Yang/XML
Benefits
  1. Generous compensation packages including equity 
  2. Medical Insurance
  3. Parental Leave 
Investors and Funding
Arrcus has raised over $160M in funding from top tier Venture Capital firms(VCs) such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Clear Ventures as well as strategic investors such as Liberty Global, SoftBank Corp, and Samsung Next.  
For more information, go to  or follow @arrcusinc.
Equal Opportunity
At Arrcus, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer – We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone. A strong belief of culture addition will propel us forward, together.

With this, we consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, benefits, compensation and training..

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