Senior Software Engineer - Wireless Software Development
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization enterprise, government agencies and SMBs around the world. .
Responsibilities
- Lead integration, optimization, and troubleshooting of Wireless LAN kernel drivers for NGFW platforms.
- Design and enhance wireless and data plane components to meet high-performance and low latency requirements.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to drive delivery of features, improvements, and system level enhancements.
- Own complex debugging, performance analysis, and root cause investigations across WLAN and networking subsystems.
- Prototype and evaluate new technologies, contributing to NextGen NGFW capabilities and product innovation.
- Influence architectural decisions, performance strategies, and long-term technical direction for wireless and dataplane systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in C/C++ systems level development for embedded or networking platforms .
- Strong background in Wireless LAN technologies with hands-on experience in Linux WLAN kernel drivers and 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax standards.
- Solid understanding of WLAN security mechanisms including WPA2/WPA3, 802.1X, MAC filtering, and access control workflows.
- Good knowledge of L2/L3 networking fundamentals such as VLANs, ACLs, routing basics, and SNMP.
- Experience with data plane /fast path technologies (DPDK, ODP, or similar) is a strong advantage.
- Strong grasp of OS internals , concurrency, memory management, and networking stack behavior.
- Proven ability to debug, optimize, and diagnose complex performance critical issues.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills across engineering teams.
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