Principal Engineer, Client Cloud Backend

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 client team creates and enhances the client software that runs on Windows, Mac or other operating systems. Easy to use, light-weight, and deployed to perform at a high throughput, Netskope Client steers user traffic through Netskope’s enterprise security products (Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Cloud Firewall (CFW), Endpoint DLP) enabling holistic data protection and facilitating SASE deployments. Netskope Client’s centralized configuration, deployment, support, and troubleshooting delivers comprehensive security and control across the borderless modern threat landscape.

What’s in it for you

As a Principal Engineer on the Client team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and enhancing cloud backend software for Netskope Cloud Security solutions, and solving some of the most challenging cloud access & data security problems for enterprise customers.

What you will be doing

• Working with a group of brilliant engineers to build service technologies that enable a CASB and Next Gen Secure Web Gateway holistic solutions.
• Writing high-throughput code using the latest software development techniques. 
• Understanding requirement specs, researching appropriate solutions, and designing and implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability.
• Working with Product Management to understand customer requirements.
• Writing and executing dev test routines for your modules.
• Working with QA to help them better test our product.

Required skills and experience

• 15+ years of work experience in the areas of endpoint, network or cloud security solutions product development.
• Strong programming skills with Node.js, Python, Golang, or C++
• Experience designing and shipping APIs.
• Understanding of REST, HTTPS, TLS, WebSocket technologies.
• Experience building and sustaining cloud, network or endpoint security software. 
• Expertise with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes deployment.
• Proponent of TDD a big plus; knowledge of various unit testing frameworks.
• Bonus points for 
• Familiarity with web data formats like JSON, XML, MIME, etc.
• Knowledge of cryptography techniques.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate in an open, transparent and consistent manner with team and co-workers.

Education

• BS Computer Science required, MS Computer Science strongly preferred

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