Principal Engineer, Secure Web Gateway

About the position

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. This team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Integrate with other features like DLP and Threat protection
• Build sophisticated key management algorithms

Requirements

• 18+ years of overall experience, including 10+ 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
• 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
• Strong communication skills and the ability to position views and arguments appropriately to win support
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• 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

Benefits

• Catered lunches and office celebrations
• Employee recognition events
• Social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON)