Principal Engineer, Realtime Data Infrastructure

Netskope is a market-leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network, and Data Security. The role involves building next-generation data infrastructure for near real-time ingestion and processing of security insights and intelligence data, partnering with industry experts to design innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Building next generation data infrastructure for near real-time ingestion, processing and delivery of security insights and intelligence data
• Partnering with industry experts in security and data infrastructure, product and engineering teams to conceptualize, design and build innovative solutions for hard problems on behalf of our customers
• Evaluating modern technologies to find the best fit for our needs and potentially contributing to some OSS projects!
• Helping other teams architect their systems on top of our data infrastructure and influencing their system design

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Java, C++ or Golang with a solid understanding of concurrency and memory management
• Proven track record of developing and operating scalable and fault-tolerant distributed data ingestion and processing systems
• Prior experience building and operating highly reliable RPC services e.g. based on gRPC, and strong knowledge of serialization formats (e.g., ProtoBuf)
• Solid grasp of distributed storage systems (e.g. S3), including their consistency models, scaling properties and efficient data serialization techniques (e.g., Parquet, ORC)
• Solid grasp of Kubernetes and Linux
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and flexibility to collaborate with a globally distributed team, across different time zones
• BSCS or equivalent required
• MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred