Distinguished Engineer, Architect

s, and Support. This position will help defining the technological direction for how Forcepoint links product value to customer outcomes.

The Role

• Drive Forcepoint security offerings to be best of breed and competitive, define the needed architecture to support these capabilities.

• Oversee development of production code, particularly during early stages, while providing guidance to more engineering as they take on different parts of a system for which you are the primary architect.

• Drive innovation and best practices to build competitive products.

• Work with partners and leaders spanning multiple organizations and teams to help set product security vision as well as define and deliver on technical roadmaps.

• Provide technical feedback for critical platform and systems development outside of your primary product work you're doing.

• Drive complex projects and lead a team of engineers, building product that meets requirements.

• Deliver a consumer like experience across the technology stack.

• Problem solving, debug, and fix with advanced development skills

We are looking for:

• You have 15+ years proven experience and are regarded as a problem solver across a broad set of constituents across your company and/or industry.

• You have extensive technical, market expertise in the security space.

• Ability to get consensus and set technical direction across a large engineering organization.

• Experience with networking and security protocols/technologies and implementation of high-speed, high-scale, data-planes that carry critical customer traffic.

• Understanding of core networking protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, BGP, IPsec, and familiarity with many others. Understanding of key security proxy technologies such as SWG, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, etc.,

• Familiarity with distributed systems development.

• Experience working and helping define test methodologies and test plans

Don't meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don't meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace - so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

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