Location: Bangalore - Indraprastha, India

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

We are looking for an energetic and dynamic engineer who is willing to push the boundaries and build smart, efficient, lightweight yet powerful network DPI, proxy software and high performant web server which can run in various environments in cloud or on-prem.

If hired, you will be working within the Thales CPLs API Security team to build security solutions to help customers identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in their APIs both in north-south as well as east-west traffic.

Responsibilities

Design and develop highly scalable, low footprint, efficient L3-L7 network processing and L4/L7 proxy software .

Build a highly optimized network packet processing engine performing deep packet inspection on Layer 7 application payload.

Build high speed packet and content filtering engine as well as rule engine to identify and remediate malicious API call traffic.

Participate in the team's software processes, including requirements and design documentation, test-plan generation and execution, peer design and code reviews, process feedback, and improvements.

Debug complicated issues as they arise during product development and with customer deployments.
 

Qualifications

3+ years experience working on network protocols, including http or other L7 protocols.

5+ years experience developing C/C++ multi-threaded applications.

Experience with designing and developing high performant Golang application

Experienced with networking disciplines, such as proxies, load balancers, API gateways, DNS management, HTTP2, GRPC, etc.

Experience in profiling and benchmarking C/C++ applications and optimizing code for maximum performance.

Knowledge of multi-core / multi-process / multi-threaded programming.

Experience with large-scale and/or high-performance software design and development.

In-depth knowledge of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, and familiarity with security protocols such as TLS and L4-L7 protocols.

Experience with application layer protocols such as HTTP, gRPC, HTTP 2, HTTPS/TLS.

Experienced with networking disciplines, such as proxies, load balancers, API gateways, DNS management, HTTP2, GRPC, etc.

Good understanding of network security best practices.

Programming familiarity with Golang and Python is an added bonus.
 

Preferred Qualifications

B.E/BTech. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience

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