About Gen
Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner. Our combined heritage is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. We bring leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in 150 countries so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come.
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be part of the operations team responsible for Gen’s VPN infrastructure, which consists of over 6,000 servers located at multiple data centres and cloud providers around the world and over 100 backend applications providing services to more than 400 million client applications/devices. You will face interesting challenges including the problem of keeping millions of TCP sessions on one server, geo-load-balancing hundreds of thousand queries per backend, patching our servers and keeping the best possible experience for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Deep understanding of Linux, experience with heavy usage of the Linux command line.
- Advanced knowledge of network protocols, DNS, firewall (iptables, firewalld).
- Shell scripting + another scripting language (Python preferred).
- Experience working with any of public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
- Experience working with infrastructure operations and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef).
- Experience working with Virtualization environments (e.g., Openstack, Proxmox, Xen or similar).
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker-Compose and any of container runtimes.
- Desire to learn new technologies and strong problem-solving skills are essential, as is having excellent attention to detail.
- Positive working attitude, teamwork spirit, and willingness to contribute, eventually lead technical discussions.
- Ability to communicate in English both in written and spoken form.
What We Offer
- Annual bonus scheme
- Unlimited PTO (paid time off), flexible working hours & home office.
- The chance to join a major global tech company listed on the S&P 500.
- Opportunity to learn and work with the best in the Digital Security industry
- Cafeteria points are provided by Benefit Plus (meal plan, pension insurance, travel, free time activities, multisport card, and much more).
- Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses
- Learning & Development plan.
- Sustainable home improvement bonus
- Mac/Windows laptop and mobile phone
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Annual bonus scheme
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible working hours
- Home office options
- Cafeteria points (meal plan, pension insurance, etc.)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Learning & Development plan
- Sustainable home improvement bonus
- Tech equipment (laptop, mobile phone)
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