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 Sr. Principal Software Engineer for our GigaSMART team. The candidate will be part of a dynamic team responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing security-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 Gigamon portfolio
• Design and develop high-performance multithreaded software applications on multicore processors
• Contribute to overall product requirements, architecture, and design
• Propose designs/solutions to meet requirements for new products
• Conduct feasibility analysis for proposed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers in software development, technology, and processes

What you’ve done:

• Minimum BSEE/CS with 10 years of software development experience in networking software architecture and Design
• Hands-on experience in networking protocols especially TCP/IP, SSL/TL
• Proven experience with performance optimization techniques in multicore environments and profiling tools
• Demonstrable experience developing high performance networking applications using DPDK
• Experience in Firewalls, IDS, IPS, and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) techniques is a plus
• Experience developing system-level software in Linux development environment

Who you are:

• Expert in C/C coding
• Strong understanding of multicore architectures and programming techniques
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, load balancing, caching, and resource management
• 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

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role based out of Gigamon’s Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office is $212,000 - $265,000, 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.