Technical Architect - R&D

Overview

Lead the design and development of next-generation cloud-native 5G Core network functions, leading a team of software engineers to deliver scalable, high-performance, carrier-grade network functions.

What you'll do

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of cloud-native 5G Packet Core network functions.
• Drive end-to-end software development using microservices architecture and modern software engineering practices.
• Lead technical discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with system architects, product management, QA, DevOps, and integration teams to deliver high-quality releases.
• Design highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Optimize packet processing performance, latency, and resource utilization.
• Ensure compliance with 3GPP standards and interoperability requirements.
• Drive CI/CD adoption, automated testing, and DevSecOps practices.
• Participate in customer issue analysis, performance optimization, and production support.
• Own feature delivery, technical planning, effort estimation, and release execution.
• Lead a team of software engineers in an Agile environment.
• Mentor engineers and support career development.
• Coordinate cross-functional development activities.
• Manage feature planning, risk mitigation, and execution.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, customers, and senior leadership.

What you'll need

• Strong understanding of 5G Core architecture.
• Hands-on experience with one or more core network functions such as: (the source lists no specific functions here).
• Good understanding of Service-Based Architecture (SBA).
• Strong knowledge of 3GPP specifications and interfaces.
• Experience with HTTP/2, REST APIs, TLS, Diameter, and SCTP.
• Knowledge of QoS, mobility management, session management, charging, and policy control.
• Strong proficiency in C++, Go, and Python.
• Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience developing REST/gRPC APIs.
• Strong object-oriented design and design patterns.
• Multithreading, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Linux systems programming.
• Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4/IPv6, and packet processing.
• Strong experience in cloud-native and microservices-based application development.
• Experience working with Kubernetes-based deployments in production environments.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd).
• Cloud-native application development and container orchestration.
• Horizontal scaling and resiliency patterns.
• Git; Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI; CI/CD pipelines; Kubernetes deployment automation.
• Monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana; logging using ELK/OpenSearch.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Electronics, Telecommunications, or related field.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience in 4G/5G Packet Core development.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.