Principal Software Engineer

Description

We invite you to be part of motivated and agile Qualys engineering team responsible for developing high-end Cloud based Security Solutions. This opening is your chance to work in the rapidly expanding field of computer security, in a company with excellent customer ratings and outstanding growth rates. In this position you will be working on network security solutions to deliver cutting-edge products including advanced Endpoint Security Technology and product. This position is for our fastest growing R&D center in Pune, India, which is part of multi-continent engineering team.

Responsibilities :

• Develop understanding of the product functionality spanning in-field appliance to cloud services i.e. the end-to-end architecture, how customers use the product, how the product fits in the overall Qualys security platform and its value-add, various customer use case scenarios etc. This perspective is required for in-depth understanding and handling customer queries.
• Ability to lead the initiatives and engineering lifecycle including write, read, comprehend codebase and participate in design / code / testcase reviews.
• Develop in-depth knowledge in Endpoint Security and networking domains
• Contribute to the appliance stack development.
• Understand the existing appliance architecture well to be able to own new feature development - design, develop, deliver.
• Study and decipher documentation needed to accomplish tasks at hand viz Endpoint security technologies including EDR / AntiMalware (EPP), XDR, MDR, etc., other Cloud Agent standards, RFCs and protocol specifications, network topologies, networking fundamentals ( Tcp / Ip stack, switches, routers, networking protocols, firewalls), Linux platform fundamentals, virtualization, deep packet inspection etc.
• Debug issues in the product reported by internal QA teams or in production by customers and suggest solutions.
• Interact with QA teams to describe product feature and methods to test it – functionality, performance, negative scenarios.
• Document the design and test plans as part of development activities.
• Communicate with other team members, including with the QA team and collaborate as required.

Qualifications : Must Have :

Additional skills that are good to have :