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Netskope

Principal Engineer, Cloud Firewall

Posted 18 Hours Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
147K-300K Annually
Expert/Leader
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
147K-300K Annually
Expert/Leader
Lead architecture and development of high-performance, scalable cloud firewall services. Design, implement, and test low-latency L3-L7 security systems, build CI/CD and test infrastructure, coordinate across product, QA, and support, and ensure reliability, scalability, and observability for enterprise customers.
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About Netskope

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

The Netskope Cloud Firewall delivers Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) for egress traffic from a SASE architecture. Users and offices connect to NewEdge, the largest private security cloud in the world for firewall protection. With Cloud Firewall, organizations improve their security posture, while reducing operational costs compared to traditional hardware appliances.

What's in it for you

You will be a member of a team using state of the art tools and technologies to design, develop and deliver a performant, scalable system that processes customer traffic at cloud-scale. In addition to design and development of the core system, you will also participate in the development of all related automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration. Your contributions to this effort will be used by Fortune and Global 500 enterprise customers on a daily basis.

What you will be doing

  • Setting and driving the overall architectural design and strategic technical directions for the CFW team
  • Designing, Architecting and Developing high performance, scalable cloud based security systems and services. 
  • Building highly scalable, low latency and high throughput services for the Netskope cloud.
  • Coordinating with other service development teams, product management and support teams to ensure scalability, supportability and availability for owned services and dependent services.
  • Working with Product Management to understand customer requirements and translating the same to engineering requirements and design. Understanding requirement specs, researching appropriate solutions, and designing/implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability.
  • Working with QA to help them better test our product.

Required skills and experience


  • 18+ years of experience building high-performance networking security software in a distributed L3-L7 environment
  • Programming mastery in C/C++, Solid understanding of data structures with Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
  • Understanding of Networking concepts - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS etc
  • Good working knowledge of Firewalls, IPS/IDS etc
  • Experience with traffic analysis tools like Tcpdump/Wireshark.
  • Experience with Unit Testing frameworks - C++ gtest, pytest
  • Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones
  • Self-starter with desire to work in a fast paced environment with cross-timezone teams.
  • Candidate should have an attitude of “go and get it done” and should exhibit it in day-2-day work
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Bonus points for experience with Ansible, Kubernetes, SQL and NoSQL datastores, CI/CD, Jenkins

Education

  • BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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Compensation: 

At Netskope, salary is one component of our competitive total rewards package. The salary range for this position is as listed below. This is a national range. For purposes of complying with applicable laws, the range applies to candidates in California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Washington, and other states.

The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, location, and market conditions. 

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the On Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target commission amount at 100% goal achievement.

In addition to salary, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus plan (for non-sales roles) and a stock award program. Candidates may also be eligible for a comprehensive health plan and other benefits that can be reviewed at Netskope Benefits site. 

Salary Range
$147,000$299,500 USD

Netskope is committed to implementing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. Netskope does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on religion, race, color, sex, marital or veteran statues, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which we operate.

Netskope respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us, please refer to Netskope's Privacy Policy for more details.

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.

Top Skills

Ansible
C
C++
Ci/Cd
Firewalls
Gtest
Ids
Ips
Jenkins
Kubernetes
NoSQL
Pytest
SQL
Ssl/Tls
Tcp/Ip
Tcpdump
Wireshark

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