- Experience with traffic generation, shaping, and impairment tools such as iperf3, Scapy, hping3, tc/netem, TRex, or commercial testers like Spirent or Ixia.
- Contributions to open-source security or networking projects.
- Exposure to firewall security testing – IPS/IDS signature validation, TLS/SSL inspection, URL filtering, and threat-feed verification.
- Familiarity with virtualization and container tooling for building test labs — Docker and Docker Compose, VMware or KVM, Kubernetes — and with infrastructure-as-code such as Ansible or Terraform.
- Exposure to performance and scale testing, and to high-availability and failover validation.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted and agentic testing tools — for example LLM-assisted test generation, self-healing test maintenance, or agent-based exploratory testing — and an interest in applying them to network security test suites.
- Experience automating network devices and appliances over SSH and CLI using libraries such as Paramiko or Netmiko.
- Familiarity with certificate and PKI tooling such as OpenSSL, for generating test certificates and validating TLS/SSL inspection behavior.
- Experience validating firewall logging and telemetry — syslog, NetFlow, or IPFIX export — against expected policy events.
Company Statement
At NETGEAR, we are on a mission to unleash the full potential of connectivity with intelligent solutions that delight and protect. We turn ideas into innovative networking products that connect people, power businesses, and advance the way we live.
We're a performance-driven, talented and connected team that's committed to delivering world-class products for our customers. As a company, we value our employees as the most essential building blocks of our success. And as teammates, we commit to taking our work to the Next Gear by living our values: we Dare to Transform the future, Connect and Delight our customers, Communicate Courageously with each other and collaborate to Win It Together. You’ll find our values woven through our processes, present in our decisions, and celebrated throughout our culture.
We strive to attract top talent and create a great workplace where people feel engaged, inspired, challenged, proud and respected. If you are creative, forward-thinking, passionate about technology and are looking for a rewarding career to make an impact, then you've got what it takes to succeed at NETGEAR. Join our network and help us shape the future of connectivity.