7 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize firewall software modules for NGFW, SASE, ZTNA, SWG, VPN, and SD-WAN solutions.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and the technical direction of the firewall and cybersecurity platform.
- Ensure software scalability, performance, and security through thoughtful design and rigorous testing.
- Troubleshoot complex issues and provide resolutions in development and production environments.
- Conduct code reviews, write technical documentation, and support continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Mentor junior developers and promote coding, design, and software development best practices.
- Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving security threats.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5–8 years of hands-on networking, cloud, and security software development experience.
- Experience with enterprise-grade cybersecurity products or network infrastructure solutions.
- Expertise in NGFW, stateful and deep packet inspection, IDS/IPS, NAT, VPNs, SWG, ZTNA, SD-WAN, and SASE.
- Hands-on experience with Linux networking and packet-processing stacks such as netfilter, iptables, nftables, eBPF/XDP, or DPDK.
- Experience designing and building scalable, high-performance software in complex distributed environments.
- Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes, as well as cloud-native architectures and containerization technologies.
- Proficiency in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Understanding of cybersecurity principles, networking protocols, and secure software development practices.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, design-decision, and mentoring skills.
- Preferred: experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, modern DevOps practices, and automated testing for networking and security software.
- Preferred: contributions to open-source security or networking projects.
About NETGEAR
NETGEAR builds consumer and SMB networking hardware and services—Wi‑Fi routers and mesh systems, Ethernet switches, modems, and network-attached storage—with cloud management and security subscriptions. It sells through retail, online, and channel partners, and works with internet service providers. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NETGEAR is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NTGR) with global distribution across home, business, and service-provider markets.