Systems Software Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will design, build, deploy, and validate network capture servers and develop capture and query software in C++, Python, Rust, and Ruby. You will automate provisioning with Ansible, provide production support, troubleshoot live issues, improve monitoring and capacity planning, and coordinate deployments with infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional systems software engineering experience
• Strong skills in Rust, C, C++, or Go
• Willingness to make C++ the primary language
• Experience with DPDK or comparable kernel-bypass packet processing
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, switching, NICs, and packet analysis
• Experience with server hardware and data center workflows
• Experience with Ansible or comparable configuration management
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and package management
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, Ruby, or similar
• Experience with testing, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Availability for weekly production support including some off-hours, nights, and weekends

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and validate network capture servers
• Develop and maintain capture and query software
• Build Ansible automation and deployment tooling
• Provide weekly production support
• Troubleshoot live capture issues and coordinate incident response
• Monitor proactively to identify problems
• Improve automation, monitoring, and capacity planning
• Onboard new capture deployments with stakeholder teams
• Coordinate work between Network Capture Services and infrastructure teams

Benefits

• Group medical insurance
• Pharmacy insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k with discretionary employer match
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Health savings accounts
• Flexible spending accounts