Software Engineer - Enterprise Browser - Remote - Versa Networks

Versa’s mission is to secure anywhere, anytime access to anything. We are a well funded, pre-IPO company that is a market leader in SASE, SSE and SD-WAN. We are unique as have a platform that simplifies, secures and modernizes your infrastructure by converging security and networking at any edge – Cloud, WAN or LAN.  Our platform provides a broad set of capabilities to address multiple use cases and is delivered either via the cloud and on-premises. We also offer multiple options to consume our solutions as either do-it-yourself or managed service.

Our goal is to deliver the best technology, maintain our rapid pace of innovation and deliver best support that provides unprecedented business. Our platform can be used for many use cases, including:

• Full software-defined branch
• Secure SD-WAN for any branch office, store, corporate sites, data centers and private clouds
• Security Services Edge (SSE) that delivers complete set of cloud security services
• Unified SASE solution for branches, hybrid workforce, IoT and secure multi-cloud networking
• Next-generation managed services for service providers.

Thousands of enterprises across multiple industry verticals and geographies use Versa today.  Customers include companies like Adobe, Visa, Cargill, CapitalOne, BP, Walmart, J.P. Morgan Chase.  Many large and small Service Providers offer managed services based on Versa’s platform.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an emerging force in these hot market categories.

Versa is looking for a highly skilled senior C++ software engineer to be part of its secure browsing team. 

Role and Responsibilities

Versa is looking for an exceptional engineer to lead the development of its next generation secure browser features. In this role, you will be responsible for researching, designing and implementing various features that are part of our secure browsing platform and associated services. If you have experience working with browser engines such as chromium or firefox and are looking for a technical role in a fast paced and dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you! Responsibilities include:

• Researching, designing and implementing one or more core features from scratch.
• Modifying existing services/features in chromium as required to fix bugs or implement functionality.
• Developing a deep understanding of one or more key components of chromium including the networking safe browsing services, IPC primitives, etc. 

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in large scale C++ software development
• Must be up to date with modern C++ revision features (C++20)
• Solid understanding of object-oriented software design principles
• Expertise in various multi-threaded/multi-process programming paradigms including asynchronous work scheduling, coroutines, locking, RPC and IPC mechanisms, etc.
• Software development experience on Windows
• Willingness to dig into complex C++ code bases and develop an understanding of key classes, APIs and object lifetimes.

Highly Desirable:

• Good understanding of web related protocols, principles and technologies including HTTP, websockets, cookies, caching, content security policy, etc.
• Cross platform software development (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• Knowledge of chromium architecture and internals or experience implementing features on top of the core chromium browser engine.

Our Benefits

Versa Networks is a small but rapidly growing organization. It is built by people with vast experience in the networking industry. We are a pragmatic team with a healthy work-life balance. We offer competitive compensation packages with pre-IPO equity. Additionally, we offer a quality of life benefit to everyone in an inspiring environment with skilled and passionate co-workers. Our exciting company culture offers a great place to work and most important, to have fun.