Senior C++ Software Engineer (Networking)

Future Focus Infotech; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Future Focus Infotech is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer (Networking) to design and scale platform-level network security systems. The role demands 8+ years of experience with strong C++ on Linux, and expertise in networking protocols, security concepts, and system-level programming.

The candidate should have hands-on work with network security systems, enterprise firewalls, and traffic inspection engines, plus familiarity with modern AI-driven engineering approaches and agentic AI

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience OR equivalent depth in platform, networking, or security systems.
• Strong hands-on experience in C++ development on Linux, embedded, or networking platforms.
• Solid experience building and debugging low-level, system-intensive applications.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and traffic flows; practical experience with network security systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform-level network security systems and scale them for performance.
• Collaborate on AI-driven engineering approaches and agentic workflows.
• Work with Go APIs and REST API modernization to integrate components.
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance of distributed networking software.

Skills

C++ development

Low-level systems

Linux networking

Networking protocols

Security systems

LLMs and prompt engineering

Agentic AI systems

Go APIs

REST APIs

Observability

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Jira

Job description

Role: Senior C++ Software Engineer (Networking)

Experience:8+ years, Location:Pune, Mode: Hybrid

Role Overview

We are hiring a senior engineer to build and scale platform-level network security systems with deep expertise in systems programming and modern AI-driven engineering approaches.

Must-Have Skills (Strict Non-Negotiable)

Core Systems & Programming

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience OR equivalent depth in platform, networking, or security systems
• Strong hands-on experience in C++ development on Linux, embedded, or networking platforms
• Solid experience building and debugging low-level, system-intensive applications

Networking & Security

• Strong understanding of:
• Networking protocols and traffic flows
• Packet inspection techniques
• Network security concepts
• Practical experience working with network security systems
• The candidate must have worked for last couple of years on networking domain-based projects. So, they must have strong familiarity with technologies like:
• TCP/IP networking
• UDP
• DNS
• HTTP/HTTPS
• IP addressing and subnetting etc.

Firewall / Security Domain

• Hands-on experience with:
• Enterprise firewalls OR
• Threat-defence appliances OR
• Packet inspection / traffic filtering engines

Good-to-Have Skills

• Agentic AI / Modern Engineering:
• Strong experience designing and building agentic AI systems, including:
• Multi-step, goal-driven workflows
• Reusable agent skill development
• Agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., MCP or similar)
• Strong proficiency in:
• LLMs and prompt engineering
• Structured outputs and validation strategies
• Reliable task orchestration
• AI system evaluation:
• Quality gates, monitoring, cost optimization
• Experience with:
• Go APIs and REST API modernization
• Distributed or multi-component systems
• Exposure to:
• Debugging complex runtime issues (memory, concurrency, performance)
• Observability and system reliability improvements
• Integration experience with:
• GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Jira

Bonus / Nice-to-Have

• Experience with:
• SSL/TLS inspection
• Certificate handling and decryption policies
• OpenSSL integrations
• Exposure to:
• Application identification engines
• Traffic classification systems
• Service discovery caches