Staff Engineer, IPSec & GRE

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.

IPSec/GRE is the primary steering method through which traffic enters the Netskope cloud. Our team bridges the networking and security worlds, and we work on some of the most challenging problems in the areas of networking, cloud and security. We build blocks of technology that define steering and monitoring, and we do so at scale by leveraging open source technologies.

What's in it for you

As a member of this team you will help to design and build an end-to-end system to manage the protocols and infrastructure that powers our market-leading cloud security solutions for our global customer base.

What you will be doing

• You will be 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.
• Supporting our global customer base by responding to and resolving customer issues in a timely manner.
• Evaluating open source technologies to find the best fit for our needs, and contributing ideas back to the open source community.

Required skills and experience

• 8+ years of work experience in the areas of network or cloud security solutions
• Excellent programming experience in C, C++(C++ 11), Python, Typescript
• Fluency in data structures and algorithms
• Experience with unit testing frameworks - C++ gtest, pytest
• Experience with VM’s, Containers, Kubernetes, NFVs
• A firm grasp of networking concepts - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, HTTP/s protocol, VLANs, VPN, IPSec, GRE
• Exposure to SQL Databases and noSQL datastores like MariaDB, MongoDB
• Exposure to deployment frameworks such as Ansible
• Hands-on experience with traffic analysis tools like Wireshark
• Excellent analytical, debugging & problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate openly and transparently with your team and co-workers

Education

• BE in CS or equivalent required, ME/M Tech/MS in CS or equivalent strongly preferred

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