Software Engineer - Embedded

Job Title: Cybersecurity Agent Developer

Location: Bengaluru, India

Experience: 7+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Agent Developer with deep expertise in C/C++ and Golang or Rust to build and optimize high-performance security agents for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. This role requires a strong background in low-level system programming, performance tuning, and security-centric design to ensure effective monitoring, threat detection, and system protection across diverse environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain cross-platform endpoint security agents.
• Optimize agent performance to ensure minimal system overhead and real-time responsiveness.
• Implement system-level hooks and monitoring components including:
• Process monitoring
• File system and network activity tracking
• System telemetry collection
• Work with kernel-level APIs and frameworks, such as:
• ETW, WFP, WMI, MiniFilter (Windows)
• eBPF, auditd, fanotify, netfilter (Linux)
• EndpointSecurity framework, XPC, System Extensions (macOS)
• Build robust, secure inter-process communication (IPC) and data serialization mechanisms.
• Integrate agents with cloud-based security platforms via REST APIs, gRPC, and TLS.
• Collaborate with internal teams (threat intelligence, detection, response) to evolve agent capabilities.
• Perform in-depth debugging, profiling, and optimization using industry-standard tools.

Required Skills & Experience:

Core Programming:

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and either Golang or Rust
• Solid experience in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming

Platform Expertise:

• Proven experience developing for Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Deep knowledge of system-level programming, including:
• Windows: WinAPI, ETW, WFP, WMI, MiniFilter
• Linux: eBPF, auditd, fanotify, netfilter
• macOS: EndpointSecurity framework, XPC, System Extensions

Security & Networking:

• Understanding of secure IPC, TLS, gRPC, and secure coding practices
• Familiarity with system hardening and secure memory management

Debugging & Optimization Tools:

• Proficient in using tools like GDB, LLDB, Valgrind, Perf, Wireshark, Sysinternals Suite

Version Control:

• Strong experience with Git (GitHub, GitLab)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cybersecurity frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Sysmon, YARA, Suricata
• Hands-on exposure to kernel/driver development
• Familiarity with EDR/XDR, sandboxing, and SIEM integrations
• Understanding of malware analysis and threat detection techniques
• Exposure to container security and cloud-native security agent development

👉 ByteFum is not just another web development company, but it is an institution for global businesses to get the technical solution of complex business problems and needs. we have remarkably touched every segment of the web & mobile development industry.

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At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

• Design, coding, enhancements, and bug fixing in DNS and related areas.

• Bring up new ideas to improve the day-to-day challenges in the design/functionality.

• Should be able to provide technical direction to the ongoing and future projects in the team.

• Keep the product vulnerability free by uplifting/fixing the open issues.

• Build tools and infrastructure to improve these F5’s components and features. 

• Set an example of software design and development innovation and excellence. 

• Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing or new products directions

• Evaluate performance of products to fine-tune, and refactor the design as per the requirements to scale up.

• Must have worked in security and related areas.

• Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents

• Conduct presentations internal and external, mentoring the team members

• May participate in the hiring and onboarding process

• Collaborate with team members and technical leads

• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

Essential 

• Deep understanding of data structures & algorithm. 

• Expert in C, C++ with hands-on experience

• Fair understanding of scripting languages Python and JavaScript

• Expertise in Linux user-level programming and exposure to Linux networking stack.

• Good understanding on TCP/IP concepts.

• Proven experience with security standards.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Good understanding of Network security and DNS modules

• Excellent Understanding of networking technologies and OS internals.

• Prior experience in leading and delivering project/programs involving multiple teams.

• Prior experience of leading and mentoring senior engineers to deliver critical projects.

Nice-to-have 

• Prior experience developing DNS and related modules is a Plus.

• Good understanding of network protocols like TCP, UDP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, FTP etc. 

• Experience with CI/CD (git, pipeline etc.). 

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 15+ years of related experience with a Bachelor of Engineering in ECE/Computers or similar years’ experience with ME/MTech in ECE/Computers.

• Excellent organizational agility and interpersonal skills throughout the organization.

• Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with international teams.

F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Excellent programming skills in C/C++ and Python
Need experience on cloud/Virtualization experience.
Strong working experience in developing application on Linux 
Experience of working with multi-threading, IPC and socket programming is must.
Familiarity with OS concepts like memory management, scheduling etc. is desirable.
Familiarity with TCP/IP protocol stack is desirable
Knowledge of Linux networking stack including conceptual understanding of IPsec, iptables, conntrack, bridging, policy based routing etc. is desirable
Familiarity with container technology
Aware of Agile Methodologies, CI/CD methods
Experienced with all phases of project in development, testing and deployment and management of enterprise solutions.
Excellent verbal written communication skills.
Self-motivation and the ability to work under aggressive timeline is must.
Strong problem-solving skills and very good time management skills

JD:

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Responsibilities:

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognise and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

Requirements:

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code.
• You recognise and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.