Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK) is a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era. We secure and accelerate cloud, data, and AI in real time, everywhere. Thousands of customers, including more than 30 of the Fortune 100, trust the Netskope One platform, its Zero Trust Engine, and the powerful NewEdge network to gain full visibility and control without performance trade-offs.
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About the role
Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.
The API Protection Team (formerly Kloudless, Inc.) is responsible for accelerating support for SaaS apps across Netskope’s CASB offering. We focus on key abstractions across the integration pipeline: Auth{n,z}, REST APIs, webhooks, and more. We use popular programming languages and cloud technologies in our stack: Go, Python, TypeScript, Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and more!
What's in it for you
- As a member of the API Protection Team you will work cross-functionally to build state-of-the-art cloud platforms to support our growing portfolio of API Protection solutions.
What you will be doing
- Architecting and implementing critical software infrastructure for distributed large-scale multi-cloud environments
- Reviewing architectures and designs across the organization to help guide other engineers to build scalable cloud services
- Providing technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale distributed cloud-native solutions
- Being a catalyst for improving engineering processes and ownership
- Researching, incubating, and driving new technologies to ensure we are leveraging the latest innovations
- Please note, this team is hiring across Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer and Staff Software Engineer levels and all candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.
Required skills and experience
- 8+ years of experience including 2+ years of experience building cloud environments
- Excellent Unix/Linux experience and programming experience with Go, C/C++, Java and scripting: Python, Ruby, Shell
- Understanding of IPC mechanisms and previous experience working with: TCP/IP, Kafka, ZMQ, gRPC, ZooKeeper.
- Strong background in cloud environments: containers, Docker, Kubernetes, etcd, ZooKeeper, service meshes, Vault, Istio and Envoy, API gateways, load balancers.
- Experience with databases, general understanding of ACID, consistency, SQL/NoSQL, key-value stores, time series and columnar databases.
- Experience in CI/CD, using tools like Drone, Github, Makefiles, etc.
- Experience with in-memory databases like Redis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bonus points for experience with Node.js & Express to build REST APIs services
Education
- BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
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The application window for this position is expected to close within 50 days. You may apply by filling out the below information, or visiting our Netskope Careers site.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience including 2+ years building cloud environments
- Excellent Unix/Linux experience
- Programming experience with Go, C/C++, Java and scripting (Python, Ruby, Shell)
- Understanding of IPC mechanisms and experience with TCP/IP, Kafka, ZMQ, gRPC, ZooKeeper
- Strong background in cloud environments: containers, Docker, Kubernetes, etcd, ZooKeeper, service meshes, Vault, Istio, Envoy, API gateways, load balancers
- Experience with databases and distributed consistency concepts (ACID, SQL/NoSQL, key-value, time series, columnar databases)
- Experience in CI/CD using tools like Drone, Github, Makefiles
- Experience with in-memory databases like Redis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Node.js & Express to build REST API services
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- MS in Computer Science or equivalent
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.
