Senior Software Engineer (C)

Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era.

As AI reshapes cybersecurity, enterprises face a dual challenge: unlocking AI’s potential while defending against AI-driven attacks. Cato addresses both through a unified, cloud-native platform, providing the visibility and context to prioritize risks and stop threats in real time across users, applications, data, and AI agents.

Join us as we scale: take on ambitious technological challenges and shape the next generation of enterprise security at a company trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.

• Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era.
• As AI reshapes cybersecurity, enterprises face a dual challenge: unlocking AI’s potential while defending against AI-driven
• attacks. Cato addresses both through a unified, cloud-native platform, providing the visibility and context to prioritize
• risks and stop threats in real time across users, applications, data, and AI agents.
• Join us as we scale: take on ambitious technological challenges and shape the next generation of enterprise security at a
• company trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.
• We’re looking for a bright and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our R&D Core team. In this critical role, you will
• design and develop solutions for in-house operating systems and platforms building our backbone cloud data centers and
• our edge on-prem devices. Cato solutions are running on a variety of hardware, ranging from small, embedded devices, to
• high-end servers, and cloud environments.

• Responsibilities:
• Design and implement operating system utilities and components to ensure a performant, stable, secure,
• maintainable, and transparent ecosystem in our cloud
• Proactively be on top of new emerging technological trends in low-level networking, hardware, kernel, and open-
• source themes. Implement and specialize in open-source solutions to specific Cato needs.
• Investigate and test performance capabilities aiming at “squeezing the lemon” out of our hardware

• Requirements :
• At least 6 years of experience as a hands-on senior software developer of a large-scale network or security solution.
• In-depth knowledge of Networking, Network Protocols and Environment
• Strong proficiency with C in a multithreaded environment
• Experience in integration with open-source software and packages
• Experience with implementing new hardware solutions and the ability to consume programmers guides and specs
• Deep working knowledge with Linux systems, utilities, customizability options, and deep understanding of kernel
• internals, hardware-software interface, and system resource management
• Passionate about demystifying performance, and the system internals from smallest Makefile flags and bios
• configurations and up to holistic integrated solutions with many moving parts
• Expert in designing and building highly scalable services, particularly in SMP environments
• A team player with excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Ability to learn new material and be the pioneer of new technology introduced and adopted by Cato