Senior Staff Engineer Software (SDWAN) NetSec Bangalore

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN group is looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer. This pivotal individual contributor role demands deep expertise in core networking security and a keen understanding of security certification needs for network and firewall appliances. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our next-generation SD-WAN platform driving the architecture design and development of its core software components alongside a world-class team. We require strong proficiency in networking protocols distributed systems and modern software engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design and development of critical software modules for our SD-WAN platform including control plane data plane orchestration and management components.
• Write high-quality scalable efficient and well-tested code primarily in C/C Go or Python for core SD-WAN functionalities.
• Drive the end-to-end implementation and enhancement of SD-WAN features such as dynamic path selection application-aware routing traffic engineering and network security features.
• Proactively collaborate with Product Management QA and other engineering teams to translate product requirements into technical specifications and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Serve as a technical expert and mentor for other engineers providing architectural guidance technical direction and conducting thorough code reviews to empower others.
• Identify and resolve complex software issues applying deep diagnostic skills to ensure platform stability and performance.
• Challenge the status quo by researching and prototyping innovative technologies and approaches to enhance our SD-WAN offerings.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent military experience.
• 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Extensive hands-on programming skills in C/C Python or Go.
• Expertise in control plane data plane and security features of networking platforms.
• Deep understanding of standard TCP/IP protocols (e.g. ARP IP ICMP TCP UDP) and IPSec VPNs.
• Proven experience with Layer 2/3 networking and routing protocols such as BGP OSPF and QoS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-core/multi-process/multi-threaded programming with strong OS concepts.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi OpenStack QEMU/KVM or Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Excellent system debugging and troubleshooting skills with proficiency in tools like GDB and Wireshark.
• Experience with solution scale performance interoperability and failover testing of distributed systems.

Additional Information :

The Team

Engineering - Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time