Principal Engineer

1 Month ago • 11 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $192,000 PA - $240,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Gigamon is seeking a Principal Engineer (PE) SW Engineer to join their team. This role involves investigating, designing, prototyping, and developing new capabilities for their monitoring fabric. The ideal candidate will have industry experience in providing innovative solutions for networking equipment or embedded systems with scalable fabric solutions and will thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Responsibilities include contributing to product requirements, architecture, and design, evaluating product solutions, architecting and developing product functions, proposing solutions, conducting feasibility analysis, improving software development processes, producing specifications and design documents, working with stakeholders, delivering competitive products on time with quality, troubleshooting complex issues, maintaining existing code, and mentoring junior engineers.
Must have:
  • MSEE/CS, preferably in networking.
  • 11+ years of experience in software design and development.
  • Expert in C/C++ coding.
  • Experience with switching software and BRCM devices.
  • Proven technical leadership.
  • Strong background in data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience with software-based packet handling.
  • Experience developing networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet).
  • Experience with Linux/Unix development.
  • Experience with multi-core, multi-threading systems.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Self-motivated, ability to work independently or in a team.
Good to have:
  • Understanding of complex software modularity and performance bottlenecks.
  • Experience contributing throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Knowledge of security technologies (VPN, Firewalls, Telecom protocols).

Job Details

Description

At Gigamon, our purpose is to protect the hybrid networks and data of the world's largest and most complex organizations. Certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps our customers eliminate security blind spots, optimize network traffic, and significantly reduce tool costs and complexity, enabling them to secure their hybrid cloud infrastructure more effectively and manage it more efficiently. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations. 
We are seeking a PE SW Engineer to work closely with others to investigate, design, prototype, and develop new capabilities for our monitoring fabric. The ideal candidate will show industry experience in providing innovative solutions for networking equipment or other embedded systems devices with scalable fabric solutions. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.  The right candidate will help design and develop major components of GigaVUE, with emphasis on the system platform and driver areas. Working as part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional environment, leading and achieving project deliverables, and will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the product lines.
What you’ll do:
  • Contribute to overall product requirements, architecture, and design.
  • Work closely with the product management organization to evaluate product solutions.
  • Architect, design, and develop various functions in our product line.
  • Propose designs/solutions to meet requirements for new products.
  • Conduct feasibility analysis for proposed solutions.
  • Develop new and improve existing processes for software development.
  • Produce functional specifications and design documents.
  • Work effectively with all stakeholders and engineers throughout the product's lifecycle.
  • Deliver a competitive product on time with the right quality.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues discovered in-house as well as in customer environments.
  • Maintain the existing code base and resolve customer issues.
  • Work with customers and third parties to understand product requirements.
  • Mentor junior engineers in software development, technology, and processes. 
What you’ve done:  
  • MSEE/CS, preferably in networking.
  • 11+ years of professional experience in designing and developing complex software.
  • Expert in C/C++ coding.
  • Experience developing switching software and solutions around BRCM switching devices.
  • Proven successful technical leadership experience.
  • Solid background in data structures and algorithms.
  • Understand complex issues in software modularity, performance bottlenecks, etc.
  • Experience contributing at all stages of the software development life-cycle.
  • Experience in software-based packet handling.
  • Experience developing software for networking protocols, including TCP/IP and Ethernet protocols.
  • Experience developing system-level software in Linux/Unix development environment.
  • Knowledge of security technologies, including VPN, Firewalls, and Telecom protocols.
  • Hands-on experience with multi-core, multi-threading systems.
  • Excellent written/oral communication skills, as well as strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • 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 [$192,000 - $240,000], with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to the plan's terms and conditions). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.  

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at (669) 240-2248.

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.

The privacy rights of all individuals including job applicants and candidates are very important to us. Our Gigamon Applicant Privacy Policy, will inform you about how Gigamon Inc. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries collect, use, store, or otherwise process personal information about job applicants and candidates, including through your access and/or use of our careers website and third-party job websites (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Naukri, etc.).

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