Senior Staff Engineer, AI-Powered ADC Platform

Threat X, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

A10 Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and development of the ACOS ADC platform, covering data plane capabilities and transport-layer processing. You will lead features from SLB to GSLB, SSL offload, and content switching for diverse deployments.

The role demands deep expertise in networking, distributed systems, and performance engineering, with collaboration across product, engineering, and field teams to translate customer needs into robust platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
• Strong background in networking and distributed systems.
• Experience with high-performance traffic processing and platform-scale software.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and development of ACOS ADC platform capabilities.
• Design and enhance L4-L7 traffic management features (SLB, GSLB, SSL offload, content switching).
• Develop scalable, high-performance traffic processing solutions across deployments.
• Define platform architecture for configuration management and automation.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical leadership across teams.

Skills

TCP/IP

TLS/SSL

HTTP/1.1/2/3

QUIC

DNS

C/C++

Linux systems programming

Multithreaded design

High-performance networking

Performance analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

GDB

Perf

Wireshark

Job description

A10 Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and development of the ACOS ADC platform, covering data plane capabilities and transport-layer processing. You will lead features from SLB to GSLB, SSL offload, and content switching for diverse deployments.

The role demands deep expertise in networking, distributed systems, and performance engineering, with collaboration across product, engineering, and field teams to translate customer needs into robust platform