Software Engineer (Network Protocals & Devices)

Position Overview:

The Senior Software Engineer-Network Protocols and Devices role is part of our Agile/Scrum SaaS Solutions Engineering team and helps support the Engineering team’s transition to an AWS cloud-native environment.

Essential Job Functions & Core Responsibilities:

• Configure, manage, and troubleshoot MikroTik RouterOS environments, including scripting, APIs, and policy enforcement
• Architect, implement, and maintain software systems that interact with or control network infrastructure
• Perform advanced network protocol integration, especially focused on RADIUS, 802.1X, and related AAA technologies
• Develop automation tools and network services that streamline configuration, authentication, and device lifecycle management
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, security-hardened containerized services optimized for resource-constrained environments and modern Linux-based infrastructure
• Collaborates with other development, product management and UX team members to turn user stories into performant, scalable capabilities, features, services, and applications within the ecosystem
• Partners with team members across functions to solve architectural and code-design challenges
• Stays informed about service design and code best practices and champions decisions that will scale and make a difference in the long term
• Works within Agile methodology with two-week sprints
• Identifies and incorporates security requirements in the software development lifecycle process
• Participates in security reviews as needed to facilitate technical discovery
• Other duties as assigned
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team-level knowledge sharing and best practices
• Participates in on-call rotation

Candidate Requirements:

Must Have:

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in network-focused roles
• Hands-on experience working with MikroTik devices, RouterOS scripting, API integration, and configuration automation
• Deep understanding of RADIUS, AAA workflows, 802.1X, EAP methods, and certificate-based authentication
• Solid understanding of network fundamentals: routing, switching, VLANs, firewalling, DHCP, DNS, VPNs, etc.
• Preferred Linux knowledge and comfort in CLI-driven environments
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation preferred)
• Experience with RESTful API design and development
• Experience in complex AWS systems with an emphasis on Serverless (i.e. not using servers and containers to solve all problems)
• Experience building scalable cloud services
• Proven experience shipping product as part of an Agile team
• Strong desire to help a successful company scale existing cloud-based services while also being a significant contributor to the development of new products

Strongly Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Works in a variety of languages and frameworks, from legacy .NET, C# and SQL to more modern Linux, Python and Elasticsearch