Technical Lead

Technical Lead

Requisition #: R901379 Location: UNITED STATES.CALIFORNIA.SAN BRUNO

Job Title: Technical Lead Region: AMERICAS

Area of Interest: Engineering - Software
Level of Experience: Experienced - Non Manager

Flexible Work Option: No

Job Description: IronPort Systems' Web Security Appliance engineering team is looking for a Technical lead/owner of customer-facing Web Security Appliance software and Security Management software (Enterprise-Class Web Proxy/Cache, Layer 4 Traffic Monitor, and associated feature set, management and reporting). Depending on experience/skill-set, candidate might be hired on to own/lead one or more large component(s) with a growth path towards owning/leading the entire appliance software stack as Web Security Platform Architect.

Primary Responsibilities:
1. Work closely with a cross functional team to design new features
2. Review and sign off on requirements documents
3. Write specification documents and drive sign-off
4. Implement new features and extend existing functionality

Required Experience and Skills:
1. Demonstrated technical ownership/leadership of large component(s)
2. Years of experience: 8+
3. Influenced/led a team of at least 5 s/w developers at varying levels of seniority
4. Languages:
o Must-have: C (significant experience: 5-10 years)
o Nice-to-have: Python, C++

5. Significant high-level software design experience
6. Significant problem solving skills
7. Significant UNIX experience
8. Experience with high-performance systems
9. Experience working as a peer with Product Management, QA, Customer Support, Program Management
10. Good, clear, concise communicator
11. Proactive, High-energy
12. Some experience meeting with customers and partners
13. Demonstrated experience:
o Connecting business requirements with technical solutions and vice-versa
o Escalating issues to management
o Influencing beyond current team/ownership
o Mentoring junior engineers and resolving technical conflicts

14. Delegating problems/component ownership to other engineers

Desired Experience and Skills:
1. Networking protocols and details of TCP/IP desired
2. General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of
3. HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
4. Network traffic/protocol classification engines
5. Network Security, Routing, Firewall experience
6. Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired 7. Prior experience in web proxy space is desirable
8. LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
9. Experience working with management to fix or simplify software engineering processes
10. Experience presenting to Customers / Sales reps