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.
Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.
As a Senior Staff Endpoint Client Engineer, you own the high-performance C++ client at the heart of the product: lightweight, high-throughput, cross-platform, and never allowed to break a user’s session. You own that runtime and the distributed systems around it, engineering for performance, security, and resilience at scale on real user devices, and you set the technical bar for the endpoint codebase.
What’s in it for you- Own the hot path. Everything the product does runs through your runtime. Correctness, latency, security, and resource footprint are yours.
- Systems problems that are actually hard. Concurrency, cross-platform delivery (macOS, Windows, mobile), and building a secure, resilient agentic harness on real user devices.
- Real scale to build against. Netskope’s customer footprint lets you deploy, validate, and harden your runtime against production usage fast.
- Build and harden the C++ client runtime at the core of the product: lightweight, multi-threaded, cross-platform (macOS first, then Windows).
- Architect the distributed systems that keep it fast and resilient at scale, engineering for fault tolerance so failures degrade gracefully rather than breaking a session.
- Build a secure agentic harness for safe, high-performance execution.
- Own reliability, observability, security, and performance of the runtime across real, varied hardware, and set patterns and standards for the endpoint codebase.
- Partner with ML engineers to embed the inference path and with backend engineers on configuration and telemetry.
- 10+ years of overall industry experience, with 6+ years shipping and sustaining production C++ (C++11 and later - 14/17/20): multi-threaded, memory-conscious, cross-platform code.
- Solid distributed systems fundamentals: routing, failover, backpressure, graceful degradation, and the failure modes that come with them.
- Deep experience building and sustaining endpoint, client, or systems software.
- Expertise with data structures, algorithms, and performance profiling.
- Fluency with agentic coding systems and genuine curiosity about agent harnesses like Claude Code, Pi, and Codex, so you use them in your own workflow and want to build the harness, not just the app.
- Strong verbal and written communication; able to work openly and transparently with the team.
- BS Computer Science or equivalent required; MS Computer Science or equivalent strongly preferred.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years overall industry experience
- 6+ years shipping and sustaining production C++ (C++11 and later: 14/17/20); multi-threaded, memory-conscious, cross-platform
- Solid distributed systems fundamentals: routing, failover, backpressure, graceful degradation
- Deep experience building and sustaining endpoint, client, or systems software
- Expertise with data structures, algorithms, and performance profiling
- Fluency with agentic coding systems and interest in building agent harnesses (e.g., Claude Code, Pi, Codex)
- Strong verbal and written communication
- BS Computer Science or equivalent
- MS Computer Science or equivalent
Netskope Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
