Principal System Development Engineer

About This Team:

Join our dynamic SPA team! We develop and manage Citrix Secure Private Access offering, ensuring secure access to enterprise resources for our customers. Our team owns the full stack including Clients, OnPrem/Cloud services, Front end across all platforms. We're a highly motivated group with a strong sense of ownership, responsibility, and customer empathy.

About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Principal System Development Engineer with 12+ years of experience to design, develop, and troubleshoot complex software applications for our Secure Private Access product. You will play a key role in leading, designing, and participating in future roadmap, and driving innovation in the overall ZTNA offering.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.
• Establishes operational plans for job area with short-to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1-2 years).
• Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards and/or operational plans that will have some impact on the achievement of overall function results.
• Responsible for improving upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.
• Problems and issues faced are numerous, typically undefined where information is difficult to obtain.
• Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems.
• Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across functions and/or businesses.
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization, which may include customers or vendors.
• Works to influence others to accept job function’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
• Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees across the Company within area of expertise.
• Typically responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.
• Required Experience/Skills:

• 12+ years of Software Development Experience.

• Strong proficiency in C/C++, and Windows OS internals

• Strong understanding of network programming and security technologies.

• Proficiency in network filtering drivers (e.g., NDIS, WFP).

• Deep knowledge of L4-L7 network protocols (TCP, UDP, IP, DNS, HTTP).

• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.

• Passion for building performant, accessible, and user-friendly interfaces.
  Ability to design and develop scalable solutions for enterprise and cloud environments.

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  Education: 
  Educational qualification for this role includes holding a Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology (BE/BTech) or higher, in Computer Science (CS) or Information Technology (IT), from a top-tier engineering institution.

• Optional Experience/Skills:
• additional languages

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks.  Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process,  please contact us at (800) 424-8749 or email us at AskHR@cloud.com for assistance.