Careers in Software Engineering – Infrastructure – Network/Security/Storage

Stealth Infrastructure start-up – Platform Engineer (Firewalls) – Santa Clara

I am working with a very well-funded stealth-mode start-up in Santa Clara creating a very disruptive and elastic means of delivering L4-7 services (initially load balancing and firewalls) to support their customer’s vast Cloud-based infrastructures. This is a distributed system shared across multiple appliances to allow for greater scalability, performance and usability.

We are looking for a Sr Platform Engineer with expertise in L4-7 technologies such as Firewalls but could include IPS/IDS, SSL/VPN etc.  The person we can seek can work autonomously in diagnosing problems and designing solutions around those problems.  The right person is fluent in C.

Responsibilities

  • The engineer joining the platform team is expected to work on the design, development and implementation of Embrane’s platform and network services
  • We expect the engineer to be very proficient in using C and use his strong coding skills to architect and implement security services for the Embrane platform

Requirements

  • BS/MS in EE/CS with a minimum of 7+ years of directly related experience
  • C expert
  • Proficiency in building security technologies such as Firewall, IPSec, VPN and unified threat management systems required
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Quick learner in a fast-paced environment and able to handle delivery pressures under tight schedules

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Sr Software Build Engineer – Linux/Debian Distribution – Palo Alto, CA

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I am working with a Palo Alto-based stealth-mode start-up in the area of virtualized networking. They believe they are sitting on a “once in a decade” type opportunity to make significant improvements in the networking infrastructure and are backed by a list of highly-recognized industry leaders who agree.

We are looking for a Sr Software Build Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and improve the automated build systems for Nicira products to accommodate the changing requirements of the software, incorporate new functionality, and improve reporting.
  • Create a virtual appliance build process capable of producing consistent and repeatable appliance images containing the base operating system and software.
  • Manage the security of the virtual appliance operation system base, monitoring security mailing lists, updating affected software incorporated in the appliance as required and developing security fixes if required.
  • Work closely with upstream open source projects to adopt changes made in the course of work.
  • Package software dependencies of products.

Requirements

Must Have

  • Extensive knowledge of GNU make and autotools build tools
  • Experience packaging Linux appliances using either apt (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) or RPM (e.g. RedHat)
  • Experience with build automation and reporting
  • Linux system administration
  • Strong open source community relationship and ability to successfully contribute fixes and improvements to upstream open source projects

Nice to have

  • Experience with virtualization systems/hypervisors
  • Security analysis and patching for appliance systems
  • Strong Python scripting

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Software Engineer – Protocol Development – Santa Clara, CA

I have an excellent opportunity with a large Santa Clara-based well-known leader in the area of network/virtualization infrastructure and security. They are executing extremely well in delivering the infrastructure products to power cutting-edge data centers.

We are looking for Software Engineer with specific skills in the area of either content acceleration algorithms or deep experience building out stacks relative to TCP/IP, HTTP or HTTPS.

Position Summary:

  • Design and implement content acceleration algorithms for our network acceleration and optimization product
  • Research, design and implement optimizations to internet protocols (such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS)
  • Design and implement new features in the areas of Layer 7 Load Balancing, Load Balancing, Server Health Monitoring, SSL, HTTP
  • Research, design and implement advanced optimization techniques such as data compression, TCP optimizations

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science, MS preferred
  • Outstanding C programming skills
  • Expertise in the design of algorithms and data structures
  • Prior experience developing features on real time embedded OS
  • Expertise in algorithms for compression and pattern matching

Preferred

  • Good understanding of HTTP, including experience with HTTP proxy development
  • Proficiency in Unix, TCP/IP and systems programming
  • Programming experience in Java script and HTML5 is a plus

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