Lead, Data Plane Software

About the role

LEAD, DATA PLANE SOFTWARE

Logos Space is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system purpose-built to serve the connectivity needs of the commercial enterprise users and government users. We will help fill an important gap in the market, providing resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers worldwide. Business customers have contracts with agreed-upon performance standards for their broadband, and Logos will build these capabilities into the system from the beginning. Speed and reliability are the foundation of the system. Logos is designed to extend cloud and data center network connectivity anywhere in the world to fixed, seaborne, and airborne terminals.

Logos is led by a team of highly experienced engineers with proven track records in the networking and satellite industries.

POSITION SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES

Logos is building next-generation space-based network fabric, and the Network Software team is responsible for the software systems that control, operate, scale, and route traffic across that network.

The Data Plane Software Lead will spearhead the architecture, design and implementation of Data Plane software for Logos network. Data Plane software spans across the Ground Segment, Satellites and Terminals routing customer and control plane traffic.This role will own foundational systems responsible for packet processing, forwarding behavior, traffic handling, performance, and the software interfaces to networking hardware and embedded systems across a distributed network environment.

This is an early, high-impact role in the Network Software team that combines distributed and embedded systems depth, networking fundamentals, and strong technical leadership.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the architecture, design and development of data plane software for the Logos network.

- Evaluate and integrate data plane technologies, including kernel networking, user-space packet processing, hardware offload, switching silicon, and embedded networking stacks.

- Define data plane interfaces across network elements, embedded systems, switching/routing hardware, and control plane services.

- Develop tools, test frameworks, and simulation/emulation environments to validate data plane behavior under realistic traffic and failure conditions.

- Participate directly in implementation, code reviews, design reviews, debugging, test strategy and system integration

- Work closely with control plane, and embedded systems teams to integrate the data plane into the broader network architecture.

- Ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of the data plane software

- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the software engineers.

- Translate product level goals into executable architecture, milestones and engineering deliverables.

- Work with product management teams to prioritize features and requirements.