Job Summary

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and development of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and SSL/TLS Decryption engines for our NGFW appliance and virtual firewall product lines. You will drive the design of high-throughput L7 inspection and threat prevention capabilities - including Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, IPS, Content Filtering, and Application Control - at scale across 10G-100G+ deployments.

Responsibilities

- Architect and evolve the DPI engine for multi-gigabit stream-based L7 traffic inspection on NGFW appliances.
- Lead design of the SSL/TLS decryption pipeline to enable security services inspection over encrypted traffic.
- Define integration strategy between the decryption layer and downstream security services (AV, IPS, Anti-Spyware, Content Filtering, Application Control).
- Drive hardware acceleration strategy for cryptographic and pattern-matching workloads.
- Champion security hardening practices and ensure compliance with contemporary cryptographic standards.
- Own architecture reviews, author technical specifications, define performance benchmarks, and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

- 10+ years of C/C++ experience in high-performance networking, packet processing,



or L7 security engines on NGFW or carrier-grade platforms.
- Strong expertise in SSL/TLS internals - TLS 1.2/1.3, PKI, certificate management, and OpenSSL/BoringSSL.
- Hands-on experience building or optimizing DPI or security service engines (AV, IPS, Content Filtering, or Application Control) on commercial NGFW platforms.
- Proficiency in multi-core, low-latency C/C++ programming - concurrency, memory optimization, and zero-copy techniques.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills across complex, multi-threaded networking environments.

Nice to Have

- Familiarity with NGFW security services from leading industry vendors.
- Exposure to modern encrypted protocol standards (HTTP/3, QUIC, DoH, ECH/ESNI).
- Experience with virtual or cloud firewall performance tuning.
- Hands-on with network traffic generation and testing tools (Spirent, IXIA, TRex).

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