Senior Software Engineer

About the Company

Forward is transforming how the world’s most complex networks are managed and secured. Founded by Stanford Ph.D.s, the company built the industry’s first network digital twin to provide IT teams with unmatched visibility and agility across cloud and vendor environments.

Responsibilities

• Help bring the best ideas from the software development world into the networking industry
• Contribute to the code base, systems, and software architecture
• Create and optimize network device models for different device vendors and protocols
• Create infrastructure needed to configure, collect, and test network devices
• Work with experts in Networking, Distributed Systems, Big Data, and Search

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience with Java
• BS in Computer Science or a related degree
• Solid software engineering experience with large code bases
• Basic understanding of networking and TCP/IP
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of switches, routers, firewalls, or load balancers
• Experience with networking protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, IPv4/IPv6, MPLS, VLAN, or VXLAN