Software Engineer, Cloud Next Generation Firewall Enterprise

Google Google · Big Tech · Raleigh, NC +2

Software Engineer role focused on building and enhancing a next-generation firewall product for Google Cloud, providing Layer 7 security for intrusion prevention and threat detection. The role involves writing, reviewing, and debugging code, designing reliable and performant solutions, and contributing to documentation. Requires experience in software development, large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and programming languages like Go and Python.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write product or system development code. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  2. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  3. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  4. Implement high-quality solutions using Go, C++, Python, and more.
  5. Design reliable and performant solutions for Cloud Networking Security intrusion prevention and detection products.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • distributed software systems
  • Golang
  • Python

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • performance analysis
  • large scale systems data analysis
  • visualization tools
  • debugging
  • code and system health
  • diagnosis and resolution
  • software test engineering
  • designing and building distributed systems
  • diagnosing network issues
  • PCAP analysis
  • Google technologies and infrastructure
  • networking
  • security
  • corporate systems and infrastructure
  • system administration and operations
  • software development lifecycle

What the JD emphasized

  • next generation firewall product
  • Layer 7 security
  • intrusion prevention and detection
  • reliable, performant, and secure environment