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.
- Robust 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.

📌 SASE Firewall SW Developer (Bengaluru)
🏢 NETGEAR
📍 Bengaluru