Director, Engineering (Platform, NGFW)

Your Impact

• Lead a growing team of engineers to build a highly functioning software development team
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Hands-on technical leader who can guide the team through complex HW and architectural decisions
• Be a strong partner to peer teams such as QA, Dev Ops, Product Management and Technical Marketing
• Has a business acumen to steer the right product priorities
• Evangelize the vision internally and externally
• Be able to represent the team and product, and all levels
• Work closely with different stakeholders to influence, develop and deliver on roadmaps
• Recognize process gaps early and able to motivate change to achieve better outcomes
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team
• Foster innovation in the organization

Your Experience

• 20+ years of industry experience in software development and management
• BE/ME in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience building and leading software development teams (of at least 20+ engineers)
• Strong experience with distributed system architecture, cloud based solutions, networking devices and protocols, high availability and fault tolerance systems
• Strong experience in platform SW development
• Strong experience in control plane and data plane development
• Experience in vendor management and certification
• Knowledge of multi-core/multi-process/multi-threaded programming Experience with network packet processing software development
• Strong technical knowledge in computer architecture, Systems engineering, Board bringup, Platform Drivers, Linux Kernel, DPDK, Peripherals and SOC Bringup.
• Experience in High Availability
• Exposure in core platform development of networking products including Routing
• Track record of recruiting top talent to build and scale teams
• Excellent presentation and organizational skills
• Ability to weigh conflicting priorities and make quick decisions in a dynamic environment
• Strategic thinker with the ability to execute the vision
• Strong leadership skills with a can-do attitude
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communication skills