SonicWall | Data Plane Engineer Intern

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SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

About You:

You have a passion for software engineering, network software, and building scalable distributed systems. You enjoy working with network protocols, sockets programming, network traffic reporting, policy enforcement, and working with authorization and authentication protocols like OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML.

Responsibilities:
As a Software Engineer Intern, you will get a chance to develop the mission-critical distributed subsystem in a rapidly scaling platform that handles millions of requests and massive amounts of events and other data. It is real-time, scalable, and highly available, and is the source of data for security monitoring, alerting, access control, and data visualization. You understand the importance of data collected from every application and component in a software-defined business environment - web, mobile, server, infrastructure, hardware - in enabling the most advanced and effective security controls and insights for business and IT decision-making.

Requirements:
● Experience developing high performance network software
● Experience with networking and sockets programming
● Experience with OS kernel network subsystems in Linux and/or Windows
● Strong foundation in a programming language such as Go, C/C++, Python, a data structures, algorithms and a strong understanding of threads, synchronization, and concurrent programming
● Understanding of design and implementation principles to build secure, scalable, resilient systems

Education and Experience:
Currently enrolled in a Degree program in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.  

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.