Security Software Engineer — Container Network Security

Why Join Us?

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a security programmer to help us build the next generation AI container network security system.

This role sits at the intersection of systems programming, network security, and cloud-native infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Help design and implement traffic inspection and prevention components that run in-line within Kubernetes clusters (as a DaemonSet, sidecar, or CNI-integrated component)

Build or contribute to protocol parsers and signature/rule-matching engines

Contribute to an AI-assisted signature generation pipeline

Work with the Linux networking stack to intercept and act on traffic with acceptable latency overhead

Help ensure the data path is efficient enough to run under the resource budgets typical of Kubernetes workloads

Collaborate with detection research and cloud security teams to translate threat intelligence into enforceable rules and behaviors