Sr Software Engineer - Kernel

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

This position is responsible for enhancing and maintaining existing software products as well as developing new products. The ideal candidate has a strong desire for excellence, with confidence in their expertise, and is a creative problem solver.

What You'll Do

• Development and enhancement of Fortra Data Security Products (SASE)
• Participate in a complete development life cycle starting with understanding various functional requirements, understand/refine functional specification and develop for high throughput/ low latency requirements.
• Influencing the features and direction of the product and platform with your own ideas.
• Develop tools to effectively measure performance and latency characteristics of the product.
• Work with the Customer Support team in troubleshooting and fixing customer issues and identifying the product gaps.
• Take an active role in mentoring junior developers.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer/Electronics/Electrical Engineering or any other relevant engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in software development of which a minimum of 2 years is spent in design/development of networking and/or security products.
• Deep hands on experience in C/C++ programming
• Recent experience in Linux Kernel programming.
• Experience in few of these technologies is desired - IPSec VPN, Intel DPDK, IKE, Strongswan, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
• Strong understanding of network & security protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, DHCP/DNS,TLS, Active Directory/LDAP, SAML)
• Demonstrable experience of building highly scalable, performant and low latency systems
• Strong understanding of network-security fundamentals (e.g. Authentication, Cryptography, PKI)
• Working experience in using debugging tools like Valgrind, GDB, Purify, etc.
• Working experience in Network Protocol analyzers tools such as Ethereal, Wireshark, etc.

At Fortra, we’re breaking the attack chain. Ready to join us? Visit our website to learn more about why employees choose to work for Fortra. Remember to connect with us on LinkedIn.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.