Staff Software Engineer (Data Plane) - C, C++ or Go

📋 Description

• Design and build high-performance data plane systems for traffic processing and policy enforcement
• Develop low-latency, scalable packet processing pipelines handling large traffic volumes
• Implement L4-L7 inspection, filtering, and enforcement mechanisms
• Optimize throughput, latency, and resource efficiency (CPU, memory, networking)
• Drive architectural decisions around distributed data plane design and traffic routing
• Collaborate with control plane teams to integrate policy distribution and enforcement

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of system/software development experience in data plane or networking systems
• Strong expertise in Go, Rust, C, or C++, with a focus on concurrency and performance
• Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Deep understanding of Linux networking stack (sockets, epoll, TCP/IP)
• Hands-on experience with packet processing frameworks (DPDK, eBPF, XDP, Netfilter)
• Strong knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS)