Principal Engineer Software (NGFW) - NetSec
- Palo Alto Networks
- 10 - 15 years
- Bengaluru
- 1 month ago
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Job Description
Your Career
We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall data plane team. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall. As a member of a data plane networking software group, you will be responsible for designing and developing the next-generation firewall. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks.
Your Impact
- Responsible for development of NextGen Network Security Components and Protocols for State-of-the-art firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments.
- Lead the development of L2-L4 network security features, including stateful TCP/UDP inspection, across both hardware and virtual platforms.
- Develop scalable flow architecture for packet processing pipeline using DPDK for multi-core platforms and interface with ASIC functions.
- Develop scalable software solutions for a distributed session architecture spanning across a cluster of firewalls.
- Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner;
- Work with multi-functional team members on feature requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc
- Product visionary, ideas on competitive edge, Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments
Qualifications Your Experience
- 10+ years of strong experience in C Programming and large scale software development on Unix/Linux.
- Expert in common network protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, multicast.
- Expert in data plane technologies like DPDK based packet processing and performance tuning along with packet Latency / Loss analysis.
- Expert in typical network device features like NAT, ALG, DoS Protection.
- Strong experience in packet processing, parsing, networking (L2 -L4) protocols/architecture, Layer-2/Layer-3/Layer-4 packet flow.
- Expert in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems.
- Good to have experience in using Broadcom/Marvell chips for switching, QoS and interface management
- In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations.
- In-depth understanding of linux systems.
- Expert C, Python, Shell script programming skills.
- Tech lead experience in networking domains.
- Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups.
- Strong Experience in C++/JAVA programming and XML/JSON understanding is desirable.
- Can-do attitude and ability to take initiative and drive open issues to completion
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Technical ArchitectEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Palo Alto NetworksLocation(s): Bengaluru
Keyskills: architecture python software development network security firewalls cybersecurity qa java product management firewall shell xml quality assurance computer architecture linux software solutions json software engineering programming
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