Data Plane Engineer Intern

Summary

Join SonicWall, a cybersecurity leader, as a Software Engineer Intern. You'll contribute to a mission-critical, distributed subsystem handling millions of requests and massive data volumes. This real-time, scalable, and highly available system fuels security monitoring, alerting, access control, and data visualization. You'll work with network protocols, sockets programming, and authentication protocols. The internship offers experience developing high-performance network software within a rapidly scaling platform. This role is ideal for students passionate about software engineering and network software.

Requirements

• Experience developing high performance network software
• Experience with networking and sockets programming
• Experience with OS kernel network subsystems in Linux and/or Windows
• Strong foundation in a programming language such as Go, C/C++, Python, a data structures, algorithms and a strong understanding of threads, synchronization, and concurrent programming
• Understanding of design and implementation principles to build secure, scalable, resilient systems

Responsibilities

• Develop the mission-critical distributed subsystem in a rapidly scaling platform that handles millions of requests and massive amounts of events and other data
• Understand the importance of data collected from every application and component in a software-defined business environment - web, mobile, server, infrastructure, hardware - in enabling the most advanced and effective security controls and insights for business and IT decision-making

Preferred Qualifications

Currently enrolled in a Degree program in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field