Principal Software Engineer - SASE Service Gateway
First seen by Alion on Aug 27, 2026.
Role - Development and enhancement of Fortra Data Security Products (SASE)
- Participate in a complete development life cycle starting with understanding various functional requirements, understand/refine functional specification and develop for high throughput/ low latency requirements.
- Influencing the features and direction of the product and platform with your own ideas.
- Develop tools to effectively measure performance and latency characteristics of the product.
- Work with the Customer Support team in troubleshooting and fixing customer issues and identifying the product gaps.
- Take an active role in mentoring junior developers.
Requirements :
- Degree in Computer/Electronics/Electrical Engineering or any other relevant engineering discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in software development of which a minimum of 3 years is spent in design/development of networking and/or security products.
- Deep hands on experience in C/C++ programming.
- Recent experience in Linux Kernel programming.
- Experience in few of these technologies is desired - IPSec VPN, Intel DPDK, IKE, Strongswan, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI).
- Strong understanding of network & security protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, DHCP/DNS, TLS, Active Directory/LDAP, SAML).
- Demonstrable experience of building highly scalable, performant and low latency systems.
- Strong understanding of network-security fundamentals (e.g. Authentication, Cryptography, PKI).
- Working experience in using debugging tools like Valgrind, GDB, Purify, etc.
- Working experience in Network Protocol analyzers tools such as Ethereal, Wireshark, etc.
Skills
IT Security Strategy, Security Tools, Data Security, C, C++, Linux, IPsec, Network Security, Network Protocols