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Sr. Software Engineer: Symantec

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Job IDSM.01
Company NameSymantec
Job CategoryTechnology
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Position TypeFull-Time, Employee
Experience10-15 Years Experience
Date PostedJune 3, 2008 (Reposted Aug 29)
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Sr. SW ENGINEER -- Java/C++, Storage/Storage mgmt, large, complex sw development

Company Overview
Work that matters. It's what we do at Symantec. Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. In essence, we protect the free flow of information in a connected world. As the fourth largest independent software company in the world, Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries with 475 out of Fortune's global 500 companies using our solutions.

People look to us to safeguard the integrity of their information, ensuring it is secure and available. Achieving this ambitious goal is only possible through the combined efforts of the innovators and visionaries that Symantec continuously attracts. Symantec draws the very best people with a variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives and provides them with a work environment where uniqueness is valued and empowered. The creative people we attract help define the spirit of innovation at Symantec.

Department Overview
Vontu DLP Division - Vontu’s Data Loss Prevention 8 is the industry's first integrated solution that combines both endpoint and network-based software to protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. Vontu's layered architecture enables customers to prevent malicious and unintentional data breaches regardless of whether data is stored on the network or on a disconnected endpoint, as well as prevent data from exiting any network gateway or endpoint.

The Engineering group at Vontu is currently about 60 and should double in the next 12-18 months. The company is on the 21st floor of a beautiful downtown San Francisco building that is commutable from both Caltrain and BART. The office space has sweeping views of SF and SF Bay so it makes for a very nice work environment.

You can look at the website to read more about products at http://www.vontu.com

Our Engineering department is growing, and is exceptionally strong. It is strong both because of the experience and talents of individuals, and because of a culture of cooperation, mentoring, learning and focus on team success.

Our product incorporates an unusually wide set of technologies: we work in areas of:

information retrieval; genetic, statistical and learning algorithms, natural language analysis; fast classification and content inspection of network protocols; application level network infrastructure; distributed multi-tier enterprise applications; high volume databases; and human computer interaction.

We do not pigeon-hole people; most of us like to work on various areas of the product and in various technologies, and it makes our team agile. We are true innovation leaders – with each release of our product we apply for several patents, and everyone in engineering contributes. But ultimately what drives us is solving real problems of our customers

Responsibilities
General skills we look for are:

• Experience and passion for building great teams, mentoring, and coaching developers.
• Comfort with Agile development and test automation
• Strong design and architecture skills and experience with large, complex software solutions
• Desire to work with Product Managers, Professional Services, and directly with customers to help design and develop products that are successful in the marketplace.
• Experience building web-based enterprise software and/or networking solutions, including experience with Java, C++, databases, XML/XSL, and HTML.
• Experience building and deploying software on Microsoft Windows.

Qualifications
Requirements

• Strong object-oriented development skills
• Understanding of various aspects of web application development (MVC, Databases, ORM, Presentation layers)
• Experience with Java/J2EE or C++

Even Better
• Experience with Unit Testing and TDD
• Experience with scaling an application to handle the ever-increasing needs of its customers
• Experience writing and optimizing complex SQL queries
• Experience with profiling and tuning of applications for performance and scalability

Technologies you may be working with:
• Java
• Struts
• ORM Tools
• Oracle
• JUnit
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• XSL
• Web Services
• AJAX

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• AJAX

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