Network Software Engineer
Network Software Engineer
About the company
Imperva is an analyst-recognized cybersecurity leader—championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Once deployed, our solutions proactively identify, evaluate, and eliminate current and emerging threats, so you never have to choose between innovating for your customers and protecting what matters most. Imperva—Protect the pulse of your business. Learn more: www.imperva.com, our blog, on Twitter.
About the role
Imperva’s Infrastructure and Cloud team is 2 years old and is staffed with senior leadership from Netflix, Cloudflare, Amazon, Fastly and other major corporations. Our mission is to rebuild Impervas pops and core infrastructure with new modern technologies, embracing Infrastructure as code at all levels with automation as a core requirement for any and all projects.
Imperva’s Infrastructure and Cloud team is looking for a Network Software Engineer to help drive innovation, scale our systems, and improve the operational excellence for Imperva’s globally distributed network. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping create and improve the automation, tooling, and platforms that enable us to continue to grow and operate our global network. You will work to improve the overall availability, reliability, performance, security, and scale of the network for Imperva’s customers. Automation in the Imperva network is key to the success of our products and is the cornerstone of our Network Security business.
Responsibilities
- Help design and build our next-generation network automation and management platforms
- Work with a globally distributed team of talented developers
- Work closely with other engineering leadership to plan and prioritize functionality needed for Imperva product growth and evolution
- Work to continuously improve the platform, using a mixture of in-house and off-the-shelf/OSS solutions
- Understand network hardware and software scale and limitations
- Ownership mindset of network deliverables of scale, performance, and availability
- Participate in on-call rotation, root cause analysis, and incident postmortems
Qualifications
- BSc/M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 4+ years' programming experience in Python & Go, Java or C++ is a bonus
- Knowledge of networking theories, concepts and protocols (essential)
- Experience with distributed systems and large scale global service providers – an advantage
- Experience with docker, kubernetes, kafka, microservice architecture – an advantage
- Experience with Configuration Management tools (e.g. jenkins , saltstack,…) – an advantage
- Experience with network automation / equipment (Juniper/Cisco/Napalm/pyez/…) an advantage
- Experience building service in AWS
- Fluent English
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to manage small projects
While we are flexible about our working locations it is important that we meet face to face from time to time to properly build relationships and get to know each other. Therefore you may be required to travel internationally up to 5 times a year for department conferences, team meetings or group working sessions. You may also be required to attend your local Imperva office from time to time to work with colleagues from your own or different departments.
Rewards
Imperva offers a competitive compensation package that includes base salary, medical, flexible time off and more. It’s an exciting time to work in the security space. Check out our products and services at www.imperva.com and career opportunities at www.imperva.com/careers.
Legal Notice
Imperva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.