Principal Engineer, API Protection

Netskope is a leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network, and Data Security. The Principal Engineer for API Protection will collaborate cross-functionally to build cloud platforms, provide technical leadership, and mentor team members to enhance engineering processes and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with high profile talents, coach, mentor and encourage growth and career progress of team members
• Reviewing architectures and designs across the organization to help guide other engineers to build scalable cloud services
• Providing technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale distributed cloud-native solutions
• Being a catalyst for improving engineering processes and ownership

Requirements:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience including 8+ years experience with distributed systems
• Excellent Unix/Linux experience and programming experience with go, C/C++, java and scripting: python, ruby, shell
• Understanding of IPC mechanisms and previous experience working with: TCP/IP, Kafka, zmq, grpc, zookeeper
• Strong background in cloud environments: containers, docker, kubernetes, etcd, zookeeper, service meshes, vault, istio and envoy, API gateways, load balancers
• Experience with databases, general understanding of ACID, consistency, sql/nosql, key-value stores, time series and columnar databases
• Experience in CI/CD, using tools like Drone, Github, Makefiles, etc
• Experience with in-memory databases like Redis
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Communicate in an open, transparent and consistent manner with team and co-workers
• Determined and ever ready to roll up sleeves to respond to the needs of customers proactively and promptly
• Achievement orientated and willing to take responsibility for own actions
• Believe in innovation and out-of-the box thinking to foster originality of ideas
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree