Summary

A strong Senior Software Engineer for the core business component of Websense. Must have an aptitude to develop functional requirements, create prototypes, design, development, and unit test within tight schedules. Has a strong drive to solve issues and develop tools to assist in issues beyond our control. Works well with others across group and department boundaries. Understands and addresses the complexities of a single code base across multiple OSes. Develops, documents, and validates solutions to problems of significant size and/or complexity. Exemplifies high standards in reviewing the work of others and in being reviewed. Mentors and provides technical assistance to other developers.

Essential Functions

• Has extensive knowledge in and can mentor others in the best practices for secure software development.
  
• Develops product development plans and estimates complexity and risk.
  
• Develops module designs based on functional requirements.
  
• Communicates designs in written form, and leads design reviews to solicit feedback and share best practices.
  
• Mentors and provides technical assistance to more junior developers.
  
• Designs, implements and supports software modules of significant size and complexity, including definition and validation of prototypes.
  
• Designs, documents and creates unit and component tests.
  
• Quickly understands and takes ownership of existing code.
  
• Understands the relationship between good design and business value.
  
• Major participant and stakeholder in design and code inspections.

Qualifications

1. Experience: 10 or more years of software development experience.
   
2. Experienced in the evaluation and incorporation of third party libraries.
   
3. Experienced in the use of Regular expression libraries (Boost, Ruby etc)
   
4. Advance experienced with unique Solaris and Linux APIs, debugging, tools and issues.
   
5. Excellent knowledge of C/C++ development in a cross platform environment.
   
6. Ability to analyze and optimize code for maximum performance without degrading quality.
   
7. Experience with networking technologies such as TCP/IP, sockets programming, and network protocols.
   
8. Significant commercial product development experience with distributed / networked multi-process / agent technologies.
   
9. Excellent communication (written and oral) and team-work skills (including collaborative design, coding and mentoring).
   

Desired Qualifications:

1. Knowledge of software design techniques for international environments (I18N, L10N)
   
2. Working knowledge of software "build" technologies including perl, ant, awk, make, gmake, cygwin.
   
3. Working knowledge of firewalls, switches, and routes.
   
4. Knowledge of software design patterns and the ability to easily refactor code when needed.
   

• Education: BA/BS Computer Science/Engineering.