Software Engineer - Networking (Forwarding) Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networksâ"¢ is a revolutionary and dynamic startup creating next generation firewalls backed by Top-tier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Globespan Capital partners. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual who wants to contribute and make a difference, this job is for you!

Description

As a member of networking software group, you will be responsible for designing and developing next-generation firewall. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on user requirement, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle.

Requirements:

• Team player, can-do attitude and take initiative.
• Good communication skills to work with cross-functional groups.
• Strong skills in large-scale software design and development.
• In-depth knowledge in selected network security fields such as stateful firewall, packet processing, TCP stream inspection, network ACL, and HA
• Working experience on data plane forwarding.
• Experience with network processor programming preferred.
• Proficient in C and familiar with Unix/Linux development environment, experience with multi-processor programming preferred.