Member Of Technical Staff - Security Data Plane Developer - Opportunity For Working Remotely Palo Alto, CA

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VMware’s elite, award-winning NSX R&D team is comprised of hundreds of world-class computer scientists and software engineers that are transforming computing through network virtualization. Members of the team voice their creative ideas and watch them become initiatives, participate in exciting products on the VMware roadmap, initiate research projects, and/or write and test code that ships. At VMware, our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals from around the world and recent graduates of top universities and by taking advantage of our extensive internal training opportunities and external education assistance program. Team members work on the latest computing equipment and have access to the ACM and IEEE libraries. VMware has offices in: Silicon Valley; Cambridge, MA; Broomfield, CO; Sofia, Bulgaria; Aarhus, Denmark; London, UK; Herzliya, Israel; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China.

Why work with our group

We are building the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) for VMware's NSX product, with a roadmap to go beyond NSX. VMware is changing the landscape of virtual security and networking in Public/Private clouds, SMB, Enterprise Data Centers and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by providing the secure networking layer. We have created a state of the art L3-L7 firewall with visibility and enforcement capabilities over everything from IP addresses to specific Applications and its attributes as part of our vision of providing "Better than physical security and connectivity”. All this is configurable seamlessly using an intuitive user interface and configuration management architecture.

We created NGFW and augment it with security analytics and of our own, plus content from our industry leading partners. To seamlessly work with our security industry partners, we have created a Threat Intelligence Cloud service hosted on the AWS public cloud.

The work in our NGFW team can be broken out into Data Plane, Management Plane and Cloud Service with an opportunity to work in multiple areas.

Job Description

We are seeking a cloud service or data plane security development engineer with a passion to work in a complex computing environment to join our Network Security development team. You will work as part of a team that develops security products for virtualized and cloud environments, with a focus on system performance, packet latency and minimal system resource usage.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing and delivering high quality industry leading NGFW security software features and services or Threat Intelligence cloud features, on an aggressive timeline
• Emphasize on quality: execution with corner cases considered, unit tests, automation, code coverage analysis and debug support
• Influence and coordinate with other development, testing and deployment teams to get feature done
• Proactively analyze risks with existing initiatives and come up with mitigation plans and address them timely
• Participate in architecture, design and code reviews
• Continuously review the product and code for optimizations and performance improvements.
• Document architectures, procedures, and processes in use and contribute to improvement of the process.
• Apply creative development methodologies and design to further improve quality of products.
• Effectively communicate dependencies and concerns/issues of implementations

Requirements:

• At least 4-5 years of work experience as an Engineer who has successfully worked in the area of core kernel development or data path packet flow or public cloud development (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills.
• Deep interest in internet technology and security concepts with emphasis on the firewall architectures and implementation.
• Understanding of kernel IO subsystems and virtualization concepts.
• Understanding of internet technologies: Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, etc., and if possible L7
• Understanding of distributed systems development
• Strong software development skills, understanding of software development methodology
• Experience with open source preferred
• Understanding of database concepts preferred
• Proficient in C, C++. Knowledge of Java Python, Go a plus
• Experience in writing software on a public cloud is a plus.
• Excellent social and communications skills and be able to interact well with developers internally as well as with partner companies.
• A Bachelors degree with relevant experience OR master's degree with Computer Science/Electrical engineering would be ideal.

Location

Any in USA. Team is based in Palo Alto, CA, US

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Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2021-08-22

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.