Sr. Staff SW Engineer

Engineering Santa Clara, California


Description

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.    

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for our GigaSMARTteam.   
The candidate will be working as part of a dynamic team and be responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing security and network-related technologies.   
The candidate will work with cross-functional groups to contribute to product specifications, software architecture, and design. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a very fast-paced environment.   

What you’ll do:   

  • Help develop innovative network security solutions to expand the Gigamon portfolio
  • Contribute to overall product requirements, architecture, and design
  • Propose designs/solutions to meet requirements for new products
  • Conduct feasibility analysis for proposed solutions
  • Produce functional specifications and design documents
  • Mentor junior engineers in software development, technology, and processes

What you’ve done:   

  • Minimum MSEE/CS with 8+ years of software development experience in Networking Software architecture and Design.
  • Expert in C++/Go coding
  • Experience in creating and working with APIs
  • Experience working with various hosting platforms AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMWare
  • Experience with OLAP/Analytical databases is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with multi-core, multi-process/multi-threaded systems
  • Experience in Proxy, Firewalls, IDS, IPS, Data protection, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is a plus.
  • Experience with NETFLOW, IPFIX is a Plus.

Who you are:   

  • Excellent written/oral communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Self-motivated individual with the ability to work in a high-achieving team or independently.

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role based out of Gigamon’s Santa Clara, CA Headquarters office is [$170,000 - $205,000], with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.    

   

Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company’s standard employee benefit programs, which currently include health insurance, health savings accounts, life, AD&D, disability, 401(k) plan with company matching contributions, paid time off (holidays, vacation, and sick), tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program (EAP), business travel accident insurance, employee discounts, and employee referral program. Additionally, employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Profit Interest Units plan.     

   

   

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We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Gigamon. As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law.

Gigamon fosters a business culture dedicated to equitable hiring. If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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