Senior Principal Engineer (Data Plane) - C, C++ or Go

📋 Description Architect high-throughput, low-latency data plane systems Lead packet processing pipeline design for scale and resilience Drive performance tuning and debugging in production Design distributed data plane architectures for scale and resilience Build traffic management: load balancing, NAT, proxying, tunneling Implement security enforcement in the data path (firewalling, DPI, ZTNA) 🎯 Requirements 12+ years in system/software development focused on data plane or networking Strong expertise in Go, Rust, C, or C++, with concurrency/perf focus Expert-level proficiency in at least one language (Go preferred) Proven track record building high-throughput, low-latency systems Deep understanding of Linux networking: sockets, epoll, TCP/IP Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS 🎁 Benefits Equal opportunity employer; diverse, inclusive culture Global presence in 100+ countries