Senior Staff Network Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop multi-tenant cloud-native networking and security solutions across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Optimize traffic steering, policy orchestration, security enforcement, and service chaining.
• Build high-speed telemetry and analytics solutions for network visibility and threat detection.
• Develop software to optimize cloud egress and gateway hosting costs while maintaining security and performance.
• Develop cloud networking applications in Go and PHP for traffic management, security policy orchestration, network observability, and service chaining.
• Define designs, write and review code, and guide teams through production delivery.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 7+ years focused primarily on backend systems.
• 3+ years in a Staff, Principal, or Architect role with end-to-end architecture and delivery ownership.
• 5+ years of hands-on programming experience in Golang and PHP.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native NGFWs and network security appliances.
• 5+ years of Linux networking experience, including netfilter, iptables, nftables, DNS filtering, traffic shaping, and QoS.
• 3+ years of experience with DNS filtering, Deep Packet Inspection, IDPS, Anti-Virus, and SSL Proxy technologies.
• 2+ years of experience with SASE components including DLP, SWG, ZTNA, CASB, sandboxing, anti-malware, and anti-virus.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Linux userspace fast-path frameworks such as VPP and DPDK.
• Experience with eBPF, XDP, AF_XDP, VXLAN, Linux Namespaces, and VRFs is preferred.
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes orchestration, including CNI selection, configuration, and troubleshooting, is preferred.
• Familiarity with Cilium, Calico, ELK, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Git, IPSec, and WireGuard is preferred.