Senior Software Engineer, Security Features
The modern world runs on the Internet, and the Internet cannot exist without its underlying infrastructure. Meraki makes setting up, managing, and maintaining that infrastructure easier than it has ever been before. Meraki enables connectivity everywhere from neighborhood cafes to education institutions to global hospitality groups operating thousands of sites.
The Security Features team is responsible for turning state-of-the-art network security concepts into intuitive, easy-to-use, customer-facing features helping small businesses, schools, and large corporations protect themselves in a constantly evolving security landscape. As a Senior Features Engineer on the MX Security team at Meraki, you will play a meaningful role in helping Meraki customers diagnose, remediate, and altogether prevent intrusions from occurring on their networks. You'll have the chance to modernize our embedded platform, craft the direction of the network security business by focusing on customer problems, and utilize Meraki's cloud-managed architecture to develop novel solutions to challenging network security problems. Meraki engineers put the customer experience first, own projects from beginning to end, and are empowered to make impactful decisions.
Meraki believes that the quality of our product is dependent on the quality of our engineers. We place a high value on nurturing the growth and development of everyone on our team. We foster an open and encouraging workplace where everybody is given the opportunity to succeed.
EXAMPLE PROJECTS OF A SENIOR SECURITY FEATURES SOFTWARE ENGINEER:
- Design and implement overhead-less copy of packets from device network drivers to userspace security features
- Build a general forwarding plane API for security features
- Drive containerization and modularization of security features and the platform as a whole
- Define how and what data are collected to help customers identify individual intrusions and ongoing trends
YOU ARE AN IDEAL CANDIDATE IF:
- You have 4+ years experience as a professional software engineer
- You have a technical degree or equivalent experience with a solid base in the fundamentals of computer science
- You have familiarity in object-oriented languages like C++, Java, C#, etc.
- You place a strong emphasis in testing and development
- You strive to build rich and dynamic features by growing current tools or by crafting entirely new components
- You can expertly work beyond the boundary of single languages or technologies to identify sophisticated bugs
- You would thrive within a small engineering team and are excited to seek open-ended problems
- You want to understand and craft how the internet works
BONUS POINTS FOR:
- You have understanding of common protocols in OSI layers 3 through 7 (IPv4/6, IPSec, TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP, TLS)
- You’re interested in security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, or security protocols
- You're eager to develop and apply modern techniques from open-source software and new Linux tools to embedded platforms
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