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Sr. Staff Engineer, Cloud Firewall Forwarding

Netskope
United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Jan 2026

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

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 network packets at cloud-scale. In addition to design and development of the core system, you will 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

  • 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.
  • Evaluating open source technologies to find the best fit for our needs, and contributing ideas to the open source community

Required skills and experience

  • 8+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with Data packet/flow based forwarding, Firewalls and tunneling protocols
  • Experience with one or more of VPP, OFP, Quagga. OVS experience is a plus.
  • Experience building cloud products – IAAS, PAAS, SaaS
  • Knowledge of Network and Application firewalls like NAT, IPsec, IPS
  • Knowledge of virtualization, NFVs, VM’s, Containers, Kubernetes is a plus
  • Knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins or Spinnaker
  • Good C and Linux programming skills including data structure, auto-scaling and performance
  • Experience programming with Python 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

  • BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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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.

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