Full-Time
Forward Networks
51-200 employees
Network modeling platform for enhanced security
No salary listed
Senior
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- 5+ years of professional front-end engineering experience
- Ability to write high-quality and unit-tested JavaScript
- Comfortable debugging and profiling web apps with browser dev tools
- Care about code quality, user experience, and visual design
- Mastery of CSS and HTML fundamentals
- Familiarity with the latest CSS layout standards (flexbox, grid)
- Comfortable working directly with Web APIs and the DOM
- Experience building single-page applications using at least one of the major front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
- A good eye for visual design; you get annoyed when things aren't pixel-perfect
- Knowledge of patterns and best practices related to interaction design and information architecture
- Experience designing and integrating with REST APIs
- Comfortable with version control, continuous integration, and pre-commit code reviews
Forward Networks offers a platform that enhances network security and visibility for businesses by using a digital twin, which is a virtual model of a physical network. This technology allows organizations to ensure their network behavior aligns with security intentions, preventing outages and reducing risks. The platform serves a wide range of clients, including large corporations and federal agencies, by providing a single source of truth for network information that is easily searchable. Forward Networks aims to help clients save costs by reducing the Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) and lowering operational expenses.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$112.5M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2013
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Increased AI adoption boosts demand for predictive analytics and troubleshooting.
- Hybrid and multi-cloud environments drive need for comprehensive network solutions.
- Zero trust security models increase demand for continuous compliance verification.
What critics are saying
- Emerging startups may offer innovative solutions at lower costs.
- Rapid AI evolution may outpace Forward Networks' current capabilities.
- Reliance on cloud providers exposes risks from service outages.
What makes Forward Networks unique
- Forward Networks offers a unique digital twin for network modeling and security.
- The platform provides end-to-end visibility across multi-cloud environments.
- Forward Networks excels in network validation and compliance verification.
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Benefits
Grow with us - We’re an agile team and early-stage company with plenty of opportunities to grow, as a company and as individuals
Competitive pay - Every team member receives a compensation package with competitive pay and equity
We offer top-grade insurance, with medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
Time off - Vacations, holidays, family days. With no tracked time off, you can go as long as it’s okay with your manager
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↑ 4%Forward Networks Wins the Trailblazer Compliance Award In 13th Annual Global InfoSec Awards at RSAC 2025SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks announced today it has been named the "Trailblazer Compliance" Award Winner in Cyber Defense Magazine's 13th annual Global InfoSec Awards. The award recognition marks Forward's third straight year winning a Global InfoSec Award, after being awarded the "Market Leader in Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation, and Management" award in 2024 and the "Hot Company in Cloud Security" award in 2023.Forward Enterprise is the only network digital twin that delivers an always-accurate compliance status for the entire network, accompanied by a prioritized remediation plan for any issues identified during data collection. Forward Enterprise gathers configuration and state data from all L2-L7 devices within the network, on-prem and cloud. This data forms an accurate network inventory and topology, serving as the foundation for its groundbreaking compliance features, including Continuous Network Security Compliance Monitoring, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Remediation, and Zero Trust Posture Validation."Security compliance continues to grow in importance as the attack surface evolves and new threats emerge. At Forward Enterprise, our goal is to reduce uncertainty by providing an accurate, up-to-date view of compliance, along with clear, actionable insights when changes are needed to protect the network," said Chiara Regale, SVP of Product and UX at Forward Networks. "We're focused on helping security teams move away from time-consuming manual processes while delivering unprecedented insight into their security posture
Forward Outranks All 14 Other Vendors, Achieving the Highest Scores for Key Features and Business Criteria and is considered an InnovatorSANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks' digital twin technology is again recognized for delivering multi-layered benefits and substantial return on investment (ROI) to large enterprises. In the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Network Validation, Forward Enterprise is ranked an outperformer and positioned closest to the "bullseye" for the third consecutive year. The company is included in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, earning the highest scores for key features and business criteria, and is projected to continue to lead the network validation market over the next 12 - 18 months.2024 GigaOm Radar: Network ValidationWith today's highly complex network landscapes, automated network validation is increasingly critical to ensuring business continuity, maintaining network security compliance, and ensuring efficient and outage-free change windows. GigaOm expects significant growth in this area to manage multi-vendor environments, improve the efficiency of change windows, secure network devices and services, and meet compliance. GigaOm cites AI/ML and robotic process automation as additional contributing factors driving market growth.Forward Networks excelled in the security category, earning a five-star rating for both compliance and security verification
Forward Networks wins Mobile Breakthrough Awards' Enterprise Cloud Computing Software of the Year for the fifth consecutive Year.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks announced today it has been named the Market Leader in Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation and Management in Cyber Defense Magazine's 12th annual Global InfoSec Awards.Forward Networks is revolutionizing how large networks are secured and managed by providing actionable, accessible, and insightful data that puts people back in control of the network. Forward Enterprise identifies exactly which vulnerabilities are present in the network and their severity. The platform then delivers a prioritized remediation plan. Forward Enterprise's secure, agentless collection method gathers current device and state information and combines it with Forward's proprietary mathematical model to create a digital twin of the network."The volume and complexity of security vulnerabilities and alerts today make it incredibly challenging for organizations to ensure they are not vulnerable," said Chiara Regale, SVP Product and UX, Forward Networks. "Our engineering team is focused on providing security teams with timely, actionable insights to protect their network. This award recognizes the efforts of our team and validates the continued momentum we're experiencing in the market.""Forward Networks embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S
Forward Networks, IP Fabric, and Slurp'it have partnered with NetBox Labs to deliver automated discovery of networks into NetBox Cloud, the industry leading network source of truth, to simplify and expedite NetBox implementation for networking teams.