About the position
We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall dataplane team as a Software Engineer. 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.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for development of the critical dataplane and network/routing components for the State-of-the-art Next Generation Firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments
- Develop L2-L4 network security features
- Develop network security high availability service infrastructure
- Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner
- Work with multi-functional team members on user requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc.
- Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments
Requirements
- Strong in-depth C Programming experience
- Multi-core and Multi-threading programming experience is a MUST
- In-depth knowledge in networking, especially in L2, L3, L4 protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP is a MUST
- Strong experience in large scale software development on Unix/Linux
- Strong technical knowledge in computer architecture and systems engineering
- Experience in routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, Multicast etc) is desired
- Strong experience in packet processing, parsing, networking (L1-L7) protocols/architecture
- Experience in data plane forwarding and any network processor programming
- Can-do attitude and ability to take initiative and drive open issues to completion
- Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups
Nice-to-haves
- Desired Python, Shell script programming skills
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
Benefits
- FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
- Mental and financial health resources
- Personalized learning opportunities
