Senior Software Engineer, Java - Network Team

Forwardnetworks

Bengaluru, India (Bangalore, India) Remote permanent

Posted: March 7, 2026

Job Description

Forward Networks is revolutionizing the way large networks are managed. The Forward Enterprise platform delivers a vendor-agnostic "digital twin" of the network, based on a mathematical model. The platform scales to support hundreds of thousands of network devices, whether cloud, hybrid cloud, or on-prem. It serves as a single source of truth for the network, enabling network operators to instantly verify security posture, accelerate troubleshooting, avoid outages, and modernize network management.

Over the past few years, Forward Networks has received tremendous industry recognition, including “Cool Vendor in Enterprise Networking” by Gartner, “Product of the Year” by Cloud Computing, “Hot Company” by Cyber Defense Magazine, “Enterprise Cloud Computing Software of the Year,” and has been named to Fortune’s “Best Workplaces in the Bay Area” list.

The company was founded by four Stanford PhD graduates who saw a massive opportunity to improve network operations. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, MSD Capital, Threshold Ventures, and Goldman Sachs.

Forward Networks is currently seeking experienced Java developers to work as part of our Network team.

Responsibilities

• Help bring the best ideas from the software development world into the networking industry.

• Contribute to our code base, systems and software architecture as a member of our engineering team.

• Help create and optimize network device models for different device vendors and protocols.

• Help create infrastructure needed to configure, collect and test network devices.

• Work with peers who are experts in Networking, Distributed Systems, Big Data and Search.

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience in software development

• 3+ years of work experience with Java

• BS in Computer Science or related degree

• Solid software engineering experience with large code bases

• Basic understanding of networking and TCP/IP.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to haves

• Working knowledge of how switches, routers, firewalls or load balancers work.

• Experience working with networking protocols such as BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, IPv4/IPv6, MPLS, VLAN, VXLAN, etc.

This position is a regular, full-time opportunity with Forward Networks in Bangalore, India. This position is required to be in the office.

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