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Kernel Developer
(Campbell, CA - San Francisco Bay Area)
Barracuda Networks is looking to expand our platform team in Campbell to provide for even faster growth of current and new product lines. We're growing quickly and need to make sure that our hardware is as awesome and rock-solid as the software that runs on it.
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Roles and Responsibilities
- HW-SW interface, e.g. how SW can optimally exploit various HW devices and types
- High availability and fault tolerance
- Performance tuning
- Familiar with the implementation of Linux system calls and vector table
- Experience in clustering and distributed file systems design is highly desirable
- Responding to and handling extreme low memory conditions to avoid system crashes
- Methods of analysis of software architectures and running system loads to understand, predict, and optimize CPU cache usage
- Memory error detection, recovery, and mitigation methodologies
- Develop, debug, and maintain Linux handling of IO devices, buses, environmental health, and subsystem firmware updates, for Intel/AMD Architecture server-class machines
- Participate in all phases of development and support including requirements, design, coding, unit testing, benchmarking, and multi-core performance tuning
- Apply upstream patches; contribute our changes/fixes to the Linux community
- Mentor other team members in areas of special knowledge
- Experience in clustering and distributed file systems design is highly desirable
Required Skills and Experience
- 3+ years software development experience using C, C++, and shell scripts
- Linux kernel development experience including device drivers
- Proven ability to be a productive and flexible team member in a fast-paced environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with engineers & management in technical forums
- Experience developing device drivers, filesystems, crypto, or similar on the Linux kernel (at least
one area) - Strong experience in open-source-style development using tools such as git
- Strong troubleshooting skills in both userspace and kernelspace
- Previous experience with release engineering (packaging, etc.) is a plus
Software Engineer in Test
(Ann Arbor, MI)
Barracuda Networks is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer in Test to our Ann Arbor team to work on the Barracuda Email Security Service (BESS). You will be responsible for leading the engineering testing team and working closely with the development team to create test plans and complete production verification before release. We need someone with proven leadership abilities, attention to detail and a strong work ethic. We have a constant flow of feature requests and bug fixes that require immediate action from the testing team.
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Roles and Responsibilities
- Develop test beds and test plans for the Barracuda Email Security Service
- Develop automation suite for the Barracuda Email Security Service and contribute to test automation infrastructure
- Mentor junior Software Engineers in Test and coordinate their activities and task assignments
- Assist support with reproducing and troubleshooting customer issues
Required Skills
- Experience testing server-based applications on UNIX/Linux
- High-level scripting languages (e.g., Perl, Python, PHP) and/or shell scripting
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Able to work under time pressure, in a dynamic environment, with minimum or no specifications
- Can-do attitude and not afraid to take ownership of projects
Desired Skills
- Familiarity with email protocols (MIME, SMTP)
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP protocols and networking (e.g., IP addressing, DNS configuration, etc.)
- Experience with decomposing product requirements, use cases and testing tasks into independent test cases
- Linux/Unix server administration and network administration
- Experience building test automation and infrastructure
Eduction
- B.S. Computer Engineering or equivalent
Experience
- 1 year plus of hands on testing experience in a professional QA environment
Principal Software Engineer, Web Application Firewall
(Campbell, CA or Ann Arbor, MI)
Barracuda Networks is looking for a stellar Principal Software Engineer to design and implement features of Barracuda's Web Application Firewall (WAF) network security product. The Barracuda’s Web Application Firewall keeps those pesky hackers from getting to your Web Server by blocking Cross-Site Script Attacks, SQL Injection Attacks and DDOS attacks. You will work with our talented development team to improve scalability and performance of network services of Barracuda WAF. You will also be working closely with the support team to resolve key customer escalations.
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Experience Required
- 8-10 years software development experience with focus on implementing high-performance network applications.
- Proficient Linux developer with substantial C/C++ programming experience.
- Experience with high-performance HTTP or SSL proxy.
- Thorough understanding of multithreading/concurrency and memory management issues on threads.
- Good working knowledge of HTTP, FTP, TCP, SSL protocols.
- Understanding of Web Security and vulnerabilities is needed.
- Strong self-starter who can work with remote teams with minimal supervision.
- Strong customer focus and solid communications skills.
Senior Software Engineer, Load Balancer
(Campbell, CA - San Francisco Bay Area)
Barracuda Networks is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement features of Barracuda's Load Balancer. The Barracuda Load Balancer balances traffic to Application Servers including Web Servers. As a Senior Engineer, you will be working with the development team to implement new features to support Load balancing of Microsoft Applications such as Exchange with OWA, Share Point and Instant Messaging. Also, the engineer will be working closely with the support team to resolve key customer escalations.
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Desired Skills and Experience
- 3 to 5 years of software development experience with focus on developing Network applications in the Linux environment.
- Proficient Linux developer with programming experience in C/C++, Perl or PHP.
- Experience in installing and deploying Microsoft Applications such as Exchange, Active Directory, ISA server is preferred.
- Experience in deploying Network Appliances such as Routers, Firewalls or Web Servers is highly preferred.
- Good working knowledge of HTTP, FTP, TCP, SSL protocols.
- Strong customer focus and solid communications skills.
Principal Software Engineer, Web Security Team
(Campbell, CA - San Francisco Bay Area)
Barracuda Networks is seeking a principal software engineer with passion to build products and services for the world’s fastest growing network security company. You will be working on major software components contributing to web security business in Barracuda. You will be joining a world class engineering team and building cutting edge technologies to take on the fast growing market needs in web content security. Example: Instead of having a tunnel vision working for Facebook, you will be looking at all the protocols and API’s in popular Social Media sites and building policy control, reporting and forensic features for our web security offerings.
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Responsibilities
- Authentication subsystems in the Barracuda Web Security products and services
- Identity Management in Barracuda Web Security products and services
- Identity caching layer to optimize identity tracking for logging, reporting and archiving components.
- Windows/Novell/Mac authentication environment integration
- Mobile software profiling and security governance for iOS and Android OS
- Processing daily development builds and manage code merges between development branches
Qualifications
- Extensive C / C++ experience (5+ years)
- Full understanding of software release cycles in the industry (3+ years)
- Expert Unix system level experience (3+ years)
- Mid level network engineering experience (2+ years)
- Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Unix Shell
- Understanding of various software design patterns in practice such as Facade, Observer, Decorator
- Strong communication skills
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- BS, MS in Computer Science required
If you have any questions about these careers or others, please email tbeim@barracuda.com.
