Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security.
Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Paris, Melbourne, Taipei, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON), we strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@Netskope.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer in Platform R&D you will design, develop, and maintain new or improved solutions for Netskope’s production services. . This resource will lead tactical and strategic infrastructure and product initiatives by designing, building, and managing complex computing systems and processes that facilitate the introduction of new products and services while allowing existing services to scale. In addition, the incumbent will provide technical leadership by sharing best practices and technology trends, and acting as a technical mentor related to the use of systems, products, services, and building scalable system architectures.
What’s in it for you
- Embrace our corporate culture by fostering collaboration without boundaries, encouraging teamwork and communication that is clear, open, and honest.
- Support the development of implementations, service definitions, component interfaces and experimental prototypes to the operations and engineering teams for systems within a product or service family.
- Architect, design, build, and manage complex computing systems in order to fulfil operational strategies for Netskope’s services.
- Understand, and be able to communicate, the nonfunctional requirements for the system (security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc.).
- Become a subject matter expert on designated Netskope products, services, and their dependent infrastructure in order to support and improve the reliability, function, and scalability of these solutions.
- Act as the technical and agile lead for projects spanning one or more areas, teams, and technologies.
- Mentor others in their technology evaluations, technical designs, and technical implementations.
Required skills and experience
- 12+ years demonstrated expertise in designing, building and managing complex computing systems including 1-2 years experience as a Sr Staff Software Engineer or Lead Engineer.
- Comprehensive understanding of computer internal architecture and design to include working knowledge of specific details and design of some variants of the *NIX based operating systems.
- Demonstrated ability to develop production-grade distributed and scalable services in collaboration with stakeholders in a distributed workforce environment.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to act as subject matter expert, tracking technology/industry trends, and to provide data-driven reasoning for recommending technology paths.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in particular when interfacing with peers in engineering and QA.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor or direct others in their technology evaluations.
Desired experience
- Demonstrated ability to sanitize and automate a rapidly growing global system.
- Deep expertise with operational support systems, automation, and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of the Agile project management methodologies.
- Knowledge in a variety of programming languages including Rust, Go, C, C++ and Python.
- Experience with modern cloud and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, KVM, OpenNebula, OpenStack or any orchestration platforms).
- Established track record for providing valuable technical details to developers and engineers.
- Established track record for providing valuable feedback during planning and implementation of existing projects.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or combination of comparable education and experience typically obtained by 5 or more years related work experience.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years experience in designing and managing complex computing systems
- 1-2 years as a Sr Staff Software Engineer or Lead Engineer
- Comprehensive understanding of NIX based operating systems
- Ability to develop production-grade distributed services
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to mentor others
Netskope Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Netskope and has not been reviewed or approved by Netskope.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in U.S. technical roles, with indications that total compensation benchmarks strongly versus peers. Employees are generally pleased with total compensation that includes pay, stock, equity, and benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple medical plan choices alongside dental, vision, disability, HSA/FSA, and EAP, and is often characterized as very good. Employer-verified plan options and regional choices reinforce the breadth and quality of coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes flexible/unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and quarterly wellness days that support rest and flexibility. Paid parental leave is available, commonly cited at 12 weeks for birth parents and 8 weeks for non‑birth parents.
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What We Do
Netskope, the SASE leader, safely and quickly connects users directly to the internet, any application, and their infrastructure from any device, on or off the network. With CASB, SWG, and ZTNA built natively in a single platform, the Netskope Security Cloud provides the most granular context, via patented technology, to enable conditional access and user awareness while enforcing zero trust principles across data protection and threat prevention everywhere. Unlike others who force tradeoffs between security and networking, Netskope’s global security private cloud provides full compute capabilities at the edge. Netskope is fast everywhere, data-centric, and cloud-smart, all while enabling good digital citizenship and providing a lower total-cost-of-ownership.
