Senior Engineer Software Development, I

Chennai, India. Posted 7 months ago

The role

The Pro Routing team designs, develops, integrates, and maintains enterprise-grade routing and WAN technologies. This role focuses on Layer 3 networking, WAN connectivity, and traffic steering for professional and managed networking products.

What you will do

Design and development of routing features (IPv4/IPv6)
Implementation and maintenance of static routing
Implementation and maintenance of policy-based routing (PBR)
Implementation and maintenance of Multi-WAN, failover, and load-balancing
Implementation and maintenance of dynamic routing protocols
Implementation and maintenance of WAN technologies including DHCP, PPPoE, and NAT/NAPT
Implementation and maintenance of firewall interaction and routing policies
Implementation and maintenance of Dual WAN
High availability and resiliency including link health monitoring and failover logic
Performance and scalability optimization and integration with platform services, UI, and cloud management

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related field)
9-12 years of relevant work experience
Strong C Programming Skills
Embedded Linux exposure / Linux networking Stack
Networking protocols TCP/IP, VPN, NAT, Firewall Exposure
Netfilter / iptables / nftables
Routing tables, policy rules, metrics
Traffic classification and marking
System diagnostics and packet analysis
Standards compliance (RFCs related to routing, DHCP, IP, ICMP)
Linux VPNs & cryptography basics
DNS, NAT, firewall interactions

About the company

NETGEAR is on a mission to unleash the full potential of connectivity with intelligent solutions. They are a performance-driven team committed to delivering world-class products.