Next Generation Firewall Software Development Engineer Datapath & Control Path

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Job Description:

Next Generation Firewall, Senior or Staff Software Development

Datapath & Control Path

About Us

Broadcom is global leader in infrastructure technology, data center networking

and security with more than 60 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering

excellence.

Broadcom’s Application, Networking and Software business unit is a leader in distributed and gateway security. Within ANS, the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) product is a pioneer and market leader in distributed security through microsegmentation.  Microsegmentation allows for security and access controls between workloads within an enterprise for stronger zero trust security control. Our Gateway firewall product provides security and control when connecting to WANs. 

Broadcom is an outright leader in virtualization in data centers and cloud deployments, a product known as VCF. VCF provides a full SDDC stack and hybrid cloud service for running workloads on any cloud. Our NGFW product is built upon VCF as a value-added comprehensive security service, with its own revenue stream.

NGFW software development is done by a small, focused team driven by creating compelling customer value in security. We are motivated by the challenge of increasing our market leadership position through continuous innovation and execution. The team is broadly split into data plane, control plane, management plane and cloud services.

This opportunity is in the data and control plane area.

Job Description

We are seeking a data plane security and control plane development engineer with a passion for complex and distributed computing environment to join our NGFW development team. You will work as part of a team that develops security products and features for virtualized and cloud environments, with a focus on optimizing system performance, latency and minimizing system resource usage. The position is located in Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for designing, developing and delivering high quality industry leading NGFW security software features and services, on an aggressive timeline

• Emphasize on quality: execution with corner cases considered, unit tests, automation, code coverage analysis and debug support
• Design complex distributed architectures, influence to get them adopted by peer group, then work with management to get it implemented
• Influence and coordinate with other development, testing and deployment teams to get feature complete and seamlessly interworking
• Proactively analyze risks with existing initiatives. Come up with mitigation plans and address them timely
• Continuously review the product and code for optimizations and scale, latency and performance improvements
• Document architectures, procedures, and processes and contribute to improvement of the process. Help with customer facing documentation
• Apply creative development methodologies and design to further improve quality of products
• Mentor junior employees
• Effectively communicate dependencies, issues and concerns of implementations timely, and proactively help to unblock

Requirements:

• Proficient in C++ and C.  Knowledge of Java, Python, Go is a plus
• Experience in Internet stack, such as Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, L7
• Experience in kernel IO and driver subsystems is a plus
• Experience in TLS cryptography is a plus
• Strong demonstrated analytical, problem solving and debugging skills
• Deep interest in internet technology and security concepts with emphasis on the firewall architectures and implementation.  Interest in virtualization concepts
• Understanding of distributed systems development
• Strong software development skills, understanding of software development methodology
• Experience with open source preferred
• Understanding of database concepts preferred
• Excellent social and communications skills, be able to interact well with developers internally as well as with partner companies to influence and drive outcomes
• A Bachelor degree in Computer Science/Electrical engineering and 12+ years of work experience as an engineer who has successfully worked in the area of data path packet flow and/or control path relevant experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science/Electrical engineering and 10+ years of work experience as an engineer who has successfully worked in the area of data path packet flow and/or control path relevant experience

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $141,000 - $225,000

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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