Netskope is a leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network and Data Security. The Principal Engineer for Cloud Firewall will design, develop, and deliver scalable cloud-based security systems while collaborating with various teams to ensure high performance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Setting and driving the overall architectural design and strategic technical directions for the CFW team
- Designing, Architecting and Developing high performance, scalable cloud based security systems and services
- Building highly scalable, low latency and high throughput services for the Netskope cloud
- Coordinating with other service development teams, product management and support teams to ensure scalability, supportability and availability for owned services and dependent services
- Working with Product Management to understand customer requirements and translating the same to engineering requirements and design. Understanding requirement specs, researching appropriate solutions, and designing/implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability
- Working with QA to help them better test our product
Requirements:
- 18+ years of experience building high-performance networking security software in a distributed L3-L7 environment
- Programming mastery in C/C++
- Solid understanding of data structures with Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Understanding of Networking concepts - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS etc
- Good working knowledge of Firewalls, IPS/IDS etc
- Experience with traffic analysis tools like Tcpdump/Wireshark
- Experience with Unit Testing frameworks - C++ gtest, pytest
- Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones
- 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
- MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred