Networking Software Engineer

Suitable Technologies, Inc.

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Palo Alto, CA, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025
Job description

Suitable is redefining face-to-face interaction and building a new market. We’re looking for creative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial talent to join our team.

We're looking for senior level engineers to work on our videoconferencing application’s networking stack. Your focus will be to ensure that our client is able to function with minimal configuration behind a broad range of corporate firewalls, and provide low-loss, low-latency connectivity for call data.

This is a broad job description and we are looking for a software developer to join us. 

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Develop network congestion control algorithms.
  • Develop loss management algorithms using Forward Error Correction and retransmission.
  • Develop additional NAT/Firewall traversal protocols.
  • Develop relays to allow media traffic to flow despite firewalls.
  • Help design and develop our relay deployment strategy.
  • Add IPv6 support to the product.
  • Develop tools to help diagnose problems in the field.
  • Provide responsive support when new networking difficulties are discovered in the field.

Skills / Job Requirements

  • More than 5 years of experience working on application networking stack is required
  • Bachelor or higher Degree in Computer Science required
  • Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design
  • Solid understanding of IP networking
  • Extensive programming experience in C++ 
  • Experience writing networking code on Linux, Windows and OSX
  • Willingness to take on new challenges and solve unfamiliar problems
  • Security experience would be beneficial


In addition, we love to see people with personal projects that show an interest in product development and good engineering principles.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Develop networking stack components, protocols, and tools for videoconferencing application.

Job title

Networking Software Engineer

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Palo Alto, CA, US; on-site with remote options

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++IP networkingLinuxWindowsOSXdata structuresalgorithmssoftware designBachelor in computer science

Preferred skills

securitypersonal projects

Specializations

networkingfirewall traversalcongestion controlloss managementIPv6
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Palo Alto, CA, USA

On-site City

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Remote City