À propos de ce poste Sr.Staff Engineer,SWG chez Netskope
Join the Future of Security at Netskope
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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Netskope Cloud Data Plane engineers architect and design one of the most scalable, high-performance cloud data planes in the world, processing 10+ Gbps of traffic, performing deep inspection using state-of-the-art techniques like AI/ML to detect activities and apply advanced policies like DLP, Threat and UEBA protection, all at line rate.
In this role you will be a key member of the NG-SWG team supporting our in-line Secure Web Gateway (SWG) products, which have been recognized by Gartner as market leaders in their Magic Quadrant reports:
Netskope SWG in Gartner 2023 SSE Magic Quadrant
Netskope CASB in Gartner 2023 SSE Magic Quadrant
What you will be doing
- Setting and driving the overall architectural design and strategic technical directions for the SWG team
- Understanding requirement specs and designing and implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability for data plane
- Working with Product Management to understand customer requirements and provide architectural guidance.
- Providing technical leadership by sharing and adapting industry leading practices for the benefit of the company.
- Build scalable and performant services that inspect various network protocols, such as HTTP/HTTPS, at line rate using advanced data structures and algorithms in C, C++, Python. For example, analyze content in real-time to provide security and perform deep inspection of traffic in near real time
- Design, architect and develop high performance, scalable cloud-based security systems to detect and mitigate threats on LLM APIs and Generative AI applications
- Integrate with other features like DLP and Threat protection
- Build sophisticated key management algorithms
Required skills and experience
• 15+ years of overall experience, including 8+ years of experience building high-performance networking software and cloud services.
• Expertise in building high throughput and low latency data systems, such as networking from Layer 3 to Layer 7, web proxy, security, monitoring and observability, web and mobile applications, data processing, etc.
• Expertise in dealing with complex architectural problems across multiple products and at the same time handling design issues at module level.
• Programming mastery in key programming languages (C/C++ or python), and ability to review code in these and other popular programming languages.
• AI-Assisted Workflow Proficiency: Demonstrated experience using advanced LLM-based coding agents in real engineering work.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, secure and cloud-native systems
• Strong understanding of computer architecture – multi-threading, CPU scheduling, memory management with practical knowledge of Linux at system/kernel level
• Hands-on experience handling complex and ambiguous customer issues. Persistence in accomplishing objectives despite uncertain situations, obstacles, and setbacks.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to position views and arguments appropriately to win support. The ability to negotiate skillfully in tough situations in order to win concessions without damaging relationships, and to respond effectively to the reactions and positions of others.
• Confidence under pressure, a mature EQ, and the ability to show a high degree of self control while maintaining a positive attitude despite adversity.
• Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones.
• The ability to represent the company in appropriate external forums and industry events promoting thought technical leadership.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills using debuggers like gdb and tools like Valgrind
• Proponent of TDD a big plus, knowledge of various unit testing frameworks
• Experience with threat detection, DLP, and security policy enforcement
• Familiarity with the request/response schemas of major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), streaming formats, agentic protocols such as MCP and A2A, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Knowledge of emerging GenAI and cloud service security challenges and best practices
- BE Computer Science required or equivalent practical experience required; MS Computer Science strongly preferred
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