Sr Staff Engineer Software - NetSec - Bangalore
Core
Designing and developing next-generation firewall software components and protocols for enterprise, data center, cloud, and service provider environments, integrating AI/LLM agents to transform solution building.
Role type
Sr Staff Engineer Software - NetSec (Next-gen Firewall)
Builds
NextGen Network Security Components, L2-L4 network security features (stateful TCP/UDP inspection), and LLM-based agents/workflows.
Domain
Cybersecurity / Network Security / AI Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
C programming, large-scale Unix/Linux software development, TCP/IP/IPv4/IPv6/multicast protocols, computer architecture, distributed systems, Python programming, LLM application development (agents, RAG, multi-turn systems), model fine-tuning, embedding optimization, prompt engineering, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, LLM API usage (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI), LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI).
Preferred skills
C++ programming, JAVA programming, XML/JSON understanding.
Technologies
C, Python, C++, Java, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, Unix/Linux, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, MCP.
Responsibilities
Develop NextGen Network Security Components and Protocols for state-of-the-art firewalls; Build L2-L4 network security features across on-premises hardware and virtual platforms; Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis; Drive development using AI and build/deploy LLM-based agents and multi-step evaluation workflows.
Seniority
Sr Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership