Principal Endpoint Developer

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Forcepoint is looking for a highly experienced Principal Endpoint Developer to join our team in the Campbell, CA office. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high quality software to our customers. This is a hands-on role requiring a strong technical background and the ability to get into the code and design process.   
 
  

Essential Functions: 

• Planning, designing, developing and testing software systems or applications for endpoint products 

• Debugging product-level issues, and identifying relevant faulty components, even outside of areas of deep specialization    

• Working with Product Managers and other teams to consolidate requirements and requests into a cohesive roadmap or technical approach  

• Proactively keeping up to date on industry and technological advancements, and presenting on those to the engineering groups  

• Mentor for other less senior members on the team assisting in career development  

• Champion best practices within the organization including but not limited to the following areas: design, architecture, code re-use, performance and quality.  

• Work with engineering team across Forcepoint engineering to meet organizational goals and deliver high quality functionality to our customers   

• Work closely with technical support to quickly qualify and resolve escalated customer issues related to the endpoint agent  

• Work from the Campbell office three to four times per week as needed 

Experience or knowledge required:  

• 10+ years of experience with C/C++ on Windows and/or macOS  

• Expert C/C++ coder with experience at the driver and kernel module layer.  

• Excellent debugging skills. Reverse engineering techniques and debugging of user and kernel space code.  

• Experience with Windows Filtering Platform on Windows and/or experience with system extensions on macOS.  

• Knowledge of software development method, design and implementation  

• Assembly language development experience is a plus 

• Expertise in languages, tools, and techniques used to implement quality software products  

• Experience developing endpoint security products  

• Exposure to technical support processes and customer issue resolution  

• Strong communication (written and oral) and teamwork behavior within a diverse team environment