Senior C++ Software Engineer (Networking)

Role Overview

We are hiring a senior engineer to build and scale platform-level network security systems with deep expertise in systems programming and modern AI-driven engineering approaches.

Must-Have Skills (Strict Non-Negotiable)

Core Systems & Programming

• 7 years of professional software engineering experience OR equivalent depth in platform networking or security systems
• Strong hands-on experience in C development on Linux embedded or networking platforms
• Solid experience building and debugging low-level system-intensive applications

Networking & Security

• Strong understanding of:
  • Networking protocols and traffic flows
  • Packet inspection techniques
  • Network security concepts
• Practical experience working with network security systems
• The candidate must have worked for last couple of years on networking domain-based projects. So they must have strong familiarity with technologies like:
  • TCP/IP networking
  • UDP
  • DNS
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • IP addressing and subnetting etc.

Firewall / Security Domain

• Hands-on experience with:
  • Enterprise firewalls OR
  • Threat-defence appliances OR
  • Packet inspection / traffic filtering engines

Good-to-Have Skills

• Agentic AI / Modern Engineering:
  • Strong experience designing and building agentic AI systems including:
    • Multi-step goal-driven workflows
    • Reusable agent skill development
    • Agent orchestration frameworks (e.g. MCP or similar)
  • Strong proficiency in:
    • LLMs and prompt engineering
    • Structured outputs and validation strategies
    • Reliable task orchestration
  • AI system evaluation:
    • Quality gates monitoring cost optimization
• Experience with:
  • Go APIs and REST API modernization
  • Distributed or multi-component systems
• Exposure to:
  • Debugging complex runtime issues (memory concurrency performance)
  • Observability and system reliability improvements
• Integration experience with:
  • GitHub CI/CD pipelines Jira

Bonus / Nice-to-Have

• Experience with:
  • SSL/TLS inspection
  • Certificate handling and decryption policies
  • OpenSSL integrations
• Exposure to:
  • Application identification engines
  • Traffic classification systems
  • Service discovery caches

Required Experience:

Senior IC