$145,000 – $160,000
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What this role is
This role involves designing and optimizing high-performance network detection systems written primarily in C and C++, focusing on protocol parsing, packet capture, and time-series data storage. It suits mid-level engineers with strong systems programming expertise who want to work on infrastructure that powers security products at scale.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, STEM, or related field
- 4+ years professional software development experience
- Strong expertise in C and C++
- Linux systems development (multithreading, memory management, IPC)
- Performance critical systems development
- Complex debugging skills (gdb, coredumps, performance tools)
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, packet processing)
- Data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
- Independent work capability and priority management
Nice to have
- Network protocol experience (HTTP, SMB, Kerberos, TLS, Microsoft protocols)
- Cloud platform exposure (AWS preferred) or distributed systems
- Observability, on-call practices, and production systems experience
- Python or similar scripting experience