Principal Software Engineer 1

Role Summary

Our is looking for developers who possess excellent programming skills and have prior experience in network security field. We are looking for a backend developer for managing and advancing our cloud-based network security platform that handles tens of thousands of devices and customers. You will build features from the ground up using sound design principles around security and scale. 

What you will do

Be able to interact with product managers to define the feature and write clear functional specs.

Work with the frontend team to define the API contracts for the backend services.

Work on critical field escalations and drive closure.

Work on prototypes that are pre-cursors to features on the product roadmap

What you will bring

Must have 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, with hands-on leadership across business, application, data, and technology domains

5+ years’ experience working with commercial software using Golang/C/C++/Java.

2+ years’ experience working with containers & microservices (, Docker, Kubernetes environments).

Data plane experience working with Forward/Reverse proxy is preferred

In depth knowledge of different networking protocols (;HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP)

Excellent design skills using principles of reuse, modularity, scale, etc.

Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Good understanding of, Microservice architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure, SQL and NoSQL databases. 

Experience working on Network Security domain is mandatory.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)

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