Principal SW Engineer

3 days ago

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India gigamon Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year
Job Description

Principal SW Engineer - Data Acquisition - India - Hybrid

Location: Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Description

Gigamon provides an intelligent architecture for enterprises, data centers, and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers, and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, prototype, and implement new capabilities for the virtual monitoring fabric. The ideal candidate will show industry experience in developing innovative solutions for data path programming in private and public cloud environments. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a highly-collaborative, fast-paced start-up environment.

What Youll Do:
  • Design and implement data path and control path logic to support scalable deep observability solutions.
  • Build and optimize the solutions for VMs and containers (Docker, Kubernetes) platforms.
  • Develop secure, scalable software using C, C , and Python, adhering to secure coding standards.
  • Architect modular, extensible systems with a strong emphasis on scale and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions to customers.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning.
What Youve Done:
  • Expert-level proficiency in C, C , and Python for systems programming.
  • Deep understanding of data path, networking subsystems (Netfilters, eBPF, TC, network drivers).
  • Strong grasp of virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware, Hyper-V) and containers.
  • Good understanding of networking concepts and exposure to basic network debug tools.
  • Familiarity with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes, with the ability to deploy and manage observability agents.
  • Proven application of secure coding practices.
Who You Are:
  • BSEE/CS with a minimum of 15 years of experience.
  • High-level understanding of system design, modular architecture, and performance optimization.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience leading cross-functional initiatives.

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to our policies.

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If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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