2 months ago
India (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the overall architectural design and strategic technical direction for the Secure Web Gateway team.
- Design and implement reliable, sustainable, scalable, and observable data-plane features.
- Build high-throughput, low-latency services that inspect network protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS at line rate using C, C++, and Python.
- Design and develop cloud-based security systems that detect and mitigate threats affecting LLM APIs and generative AI applications.
- Integrate SWG capabilities with DLP and threat protection features.
- Develop sophisticated key-management algorithms.
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and industry thought leadership internally and at external events.
- Collaborate with Product Management to understand customer requirements and provide architectural guidance.
Requirements
- 15+ years of overall experience, including 8+ years building high-performance networking software and cloud services.
- Expertise in high-throughput and low-latency data systems, Layer 3–Layer 7 networking, web proxies, security, monitoring and observability, web and mobile applications, or data processing.
- Expertise solving complex architectural problems across multiple products while addressing module-level design issues.
- Programming mastery in C/C++ or Python, with the ability to review code in those and other programming languages.
- Demonstrated experience using advanced LLM-based coding agents in real engineering work.
- Proven experience designing large-scale, secure, cloud-native systems.
- Strong understanding of computer architecture, multithreading, CPU scheduling, memory management, and Linux at the system/kernel level.
- Experience handling complex and ambiguous customer issues, with persistence in overcoming obstacles and setbacks.
- Strong communication, negotiation, troubleshooting, analytical, and leadership skills.
- Willingness to work with globally distributed teams across different time zones.
- Experience with threat detection, DLP, and security policy enforcement.
- Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, streaming formats, MCP, A2A, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
- BE in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience is required; an MS in Computer Science is strongly preferred.
- Experience with debuggers such as gdb and tools such as Valgrind is valued; knowledge of unit testing frameworks is a plus.
Benefits
- The team is hiring across all levels and assesses candidates individually for appropriate leveling.
- Opportunity to work on Netskope’s market-leading SWG and CASB products and high-performance cloud data plane.
- Globally distributed work environment with opportunities for continuous education, mentorship, entrepreneurship, and technical leadership.
- The application window is expected to close within 50 days.
About Netskope
Netskope builds cloud security and networking software for enterprises, bundling CASB, SWG, ZTNA, DLP, and an enterprise browser in the Netskope One Security Service Edge/SASE platform. It sells subscriptions and services to security and networking teams to protect data and manage access across SaaS, web, private apps, and public cloud. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope says it serves thousands of customers, including dozens of Fortune 100 companies.