Staff Software Engineer - Embedded Networking (remote)

Johnson Controls•Glendale, AZ

2d•Remote

About The Position

Our Airwall Zero Trust technology secures mission critical assets around the world. It provides encrypted remote access, protects communication from the edge to the cloud, and makes legacy infrastructure invisible to discovery and attack. For operators running equipment that cannot be patched or taken offline, that combination is the difference between a contained incident and a shutdown. The Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Networking, is a hands-on engineering role at the core of the product. You will extend Airwall onto new classes of devices, modernize a technology stack that has to keep pace with a fast-moving market, and strengthen our competitive position in operational technology security. The work runs from constrained embedded targets up through the secure data path, and it stays close to the code. Few engineers arrive fluent in identity-based overlay networking, so we hire for systems depth and expect you to pick up the protocol work quickly. You don't have to be a recognized authority on zero trust networking or IPsec on day one, and by the time you're finished here, you will be. This is a remote position for US based candidates.

Requirements

8+ years shipping production networking software, with significant time on embedded or kernel-adjacent systems
Deep expertise in C, C++, or Rust, with the ability to work across all three
Command of the networking stack from Layer 2 through Layer 4, including the judgment to reason about a failure from the wire upward and read a packet capture unaided
Hands-on embedded Linux experience on resource-constrained hardware, or OpenWRT
Working knowledge of encrypted transport such as IPsec, ESP, and IKE, along with certificate-based identity and PKI
A track record of shipping into environments where downtime carries real consequences
Clear communication and the judgment to work well across product and engineering teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with Host Identity Protocol (RFC 7401) or another identity-based networking overlay
Background in operational technology or industrial control systems, including protocols such as BACnet or Modbus
Exposure to hardware bring-up, board support packages, or firmware release engineering
Contributions to open source networking projects

Responsibilities

Extend Airwall onto new classes of devices and hardware targets, taking the platform into environments it does not reach today
Own the embedded software running on constrained targets, including OpenWRT , and ARM-based platforms
Work deep in the secure data path: identity-based overlay networking, IPsec and ESP, IKE, tunnel encapsulation, NAT traversal, Layer 2 connectivity carried over Layer 3, and certificate-based identity backed by PKI
Modernize the Airwall technology stack, retiring what has aged and raising the ceiling on performance, observability, and maintainability
Diagnose hard networking failures in live customer environments, down to packet-level analysis
Contribute to core codebases and raise the standard for code quality, testing, and performance
Mentor engineers across the team and serve as a technical role model