Netskope

Sr. Staff Engineer, Endpoint Security

Netskope$124K — $253K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; Master's preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience with high-availability distributed backend systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang for backend service development.
  • Experience using cloud infrastructure for service deployment and scaling.
  • Solid problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset.
  • Excellent communication skills with a focus on clarity and kindness in interactions.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive complex technical projects from design to deployment.
  • Set architectural direction for backend APIs focused on performance and reliability.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to convert business needs into technical solutions.
  • Prioritize technical initiatives to achieve impactful outcomes efficiently.
  • Promote engineering best practices including CI/CD and incident response.
  • Establish standards for operational excellence and monitoring processes.
  • Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure high-quality coding standards.

Benefits

  • Mentorship opportunities and the chance to foster a collaborative culture.
  • Support for ongoing learning and improvement through knowledge sharing.
  • Access to a comprehensive health plan and related benefits.
Full Job Description
About the role

Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

The Endpoint Data Security team designs, implements and enhances next-generation endpoint security products. Netskope Endpoint DLP extends the Netskope Cloud DLP solution to data in use on employees' managed machines protecting it from loss and theft. It seamlessly extends all the advanced solution capabilities of Netskope Cloud DLP to corporate endpoints to consistently identify, monitor and protect sensitive data leaving such endpoints via USB.

What's in it for you

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Data Protection team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and enhancing client software for Netskope Cloud Security solutions, and solving some of the most challenging cloud access & data security problems for enterprise customers.

In this role you will
  • Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from technical design through production deployment and operational excellence.
  • Set the architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services to ensure high availability, resiliency, and performance at scale.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
  • Strategically prioritize initiatives and technical workstreams to deliver the highest-impact and most time-sensitive outcomes, while proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks to ensure successful execution.
  • Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
  • Set standards for operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, on-call processes, and post-incident analysis.
  • Perform thorough code reviews and uphold a high standard of technical rigor and maintainability.
  • Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Influence newly-surfacing AI development best-practices and help the team be more productive.
  • Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.

Required skills and experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production environments.
  • Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services using Golang.
  • Experience deploying and scaling services within cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to express complex technical ideas clearly. The ability to treat others with kindness even in tense situations is very important and valued.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems (e.g., Git, Gitlab, Jenkins).
  • Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Grafana).

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field required; Master's degree or higher 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

$124,500-$253,000 USD

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.

About Netskope

Netskope is an American software company providing a computer security platform. The platform offers cloud-native solutions to businesses for data protection and defense against threats in cloud applications, cloud infrastructure, and the web. Netskope is considered a "leader in its field" status for its Cloud Access Security Brokers product from Gartner. Netskope is based in Santa Clara, California, with a software development facility in Bangalore, India, and further offices in San Francisco, Redmond, New York, St. Louis, London, Melbourne, Leganés and Singapore. Netskope was founded in 2012 by Sanjay Beri, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Krishna Narayanaswamy with an initial venture capital of approximately $21m. In October 2013, one year after being founded, Netskope launched its first openly available security software. In that same month, it announced the formation of an advisory team and appointed Enrique Salem, former Symantec chairman and CEO to its board of directors. In 2014, Netskope raised $35m in funding. By mid-2015, the company announced plans to expand to the Australia and New Zealand market and in September, Netskope raised a further $75m in a round led by ICONIQ Capital. In 2016, the first two patents were issued to Netskope - Patents 9,270,765 and 9,398,102 for security for network delivered services. In June 2017, Netskope closed the most successful funding round yet, securing $100m in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The following month, Netskope acquired Sift Security, also a software company with a focus on next-generation cloud infrastructure security. The acquisition brought Sift’s IaaS ‘Cloud Hunter’ into Netskope’s Security Cloud. A year later, in June 2018, Patent 9,928,377 for context-aware data loss prevention was issued to Netskope. 2018 also saw another round of funding for Netskope, as the company raised a further $168.7m in November.
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