Staff Engineer, DSPM

Join the Future of Security at Netskope

Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK) is a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era. We secure and accelerate cloud, data, and AI in real time, everywhere. Thousands of customers, including more than 30 of the Fortune 100, trust the Netskope One platform, its Zero Trust Engine, and the powerful NewEdge network to gain full visibility and control without performance trade-offs.

At Netskope, our technology is driven by our greatest strength: our people. We believe that belonging powers innovation, and success is both personal and organizational. We embrace differences in gender, ethnicity, beliefs, ability, and identity, creating an environment where every voice is heard and respected. We empower our employees to bring their authentic selves to work, grow their careers through continuous education and mentorship, and lead with transparency and curiosity. Join a team where you belong, where you are encouraged to be an entrepreneur, and where together, we continue to redefine the landscape of security.

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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.

Within Netskope Engineering, the DSPM team is responsible for building cloud-scale Data Security Posture Management that give enterprises visibility, compliance for structured and unstructured data stores.

We are a distributed team of engineers who have a passion for learning new skills and building great products. Our product has been built from the ground up in Scala, on top of the Lightbend stack (Play/Akka). As a member of the DSPM team, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative and scalable systems to protect the exponentially increasing amount of enterprise data.

What's in it for you

We’re looking to hire backend software engineers who are excited to learn new technologies and comfortable diving into different levels of our stack. For this position, we are seeking experienced candidates with specialized skills that are able to jump in, learn quickly, and contribute wherever is needed. As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impact and you’ll help shape the culture of the company.

What you will be doing

• Work with the engineering team to design, build, and test our cloud-based platform including front-end, back-end, and services.
• Participate in feature estimation, feature prioritization, sprint planning, biweekly sprints, code reviews, and sprint retros.
• Contribute to product development: understand customer needs and work with the product team to design, plan, and implement new features.
• Support early customers of our software by investigating and fixing production issues.
• Help us improve our processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility, cost, and reliability.

Required skills and experience

• 6 - 9 years of software development experience with enterprise-grade software.
• Must have experience in building scalable, high-performance cloud services.
• Expert coding skills in Scala or Java backend.
• Deep knowledge on databases, optimization of queries, views.
• Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
• Expertise in building scalable event based asynchronous systems based on the microservices architecture.
• Experience working with docker and kubernetes.
• Willing to learn, challenge yourself, and share your ideas with the team.
• Able to multitask and wear many hats in a fast-paced environment. This week you might lead the design of a new feature, next week you are fixing a critical bug or improving our CI infrastructure.
• Cybersecurity experience and adversarial thinking.
• Must have expertise in building REST APIs.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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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.