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Sr. Staff Engineer, IPSec / GRE

Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Sept 2025

About the role

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

IPSec-GRE is one of the primary steering methods using which customers route their traffic to Netskope cloud. With this model, 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

Working on state of the art security features that our customers are going to use every day.
Designing, developing and supporting high performance and scalable cloud systems and services.
Coordinating with other service development teams, product management and support teams to ensure scalability, supportability and availability for owned services and dependent services.
Working to resolve customer issues in a timely manner to improve issue resolution response time and customer satisfaction.

Required skills and experience

8+ years of relevant industry experience
Solid C, C++(C++ 11), Python, Typescript and Linux programming skills
Experience with data structures for scaling and performance.
Understanding of Networking concepts - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, IPSec, GRE, VPN.
Bonus points for experience VPP and DPDK. [XDP - fast network path]
Experience with traffic analysis tools like Tcpdump/Wireshark.
Experience with Unit Testing frameworks - C++ gtest, pytest
Strong analytical, problem-spotting and problem-solving skills.
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

Required skills and experience

8+ years of relevant industry experience
Solid C, C++, Python, Linux programming skills
Experience with data structures for scaling and performance.
Understanding of Networking concepts and protocols - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, IPSec, GRE, VPN.
Bonus points for experience with VPP and DPDK.
Experience with traffic analysis tools like Tcpdump/Wireshark.
Experience with Unit Testing frameworks - C++ gtest, pytest
Strong analytical, problem-spotting and problem-solving skills.
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-to-day work

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