Staff Engineer, Cloud Firewall

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.

The Netskope Cloud Firewall delivers Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) for egress traffic as part of SASE architecture. Users and offices connect to NewEdge, the largest private security cloud in the world for firewall protection. With Cloud Firewall, organizations improve their security posture, while reducing operational costs compared to traditional hardware appliances.

What's in it for you

You will be a member of a team using state of the art tools and technologies to design, develop and deliver a performant, scalable system that processes customer traffic at cloud-scale. In addition to design and development of the core system, you will also participate in the development of all related automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration. Your contributions to this effort will be used by Fortune and Global 500 enterprise customers on a daily basis.

What you will be doing

• 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.
• Working on state of the art security features that our customers are going to use every day.
• Working to resolve customer issues in a timely manner to improve issue resolution response time and customer satisfaction.
• Evaluating open source technologies to find the best fit for our needs, and contributing ideas to the open source community

Required skills and experience

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• Solid C, C++(C++ 11), Python, Typescript and Linux programming skills
• Experience with data structures for scaling and performance.
• Understanding of Networking concepts - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, IPSec, GRE, VPN.
• Experience with traffic analysis tools like Tcpdump/Wireshark.
• Experience with Unit Testing frameworks - C++ gtest, pytest
• Strong analytical, problem-spotting and problem-solving skills.
• 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

Education

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

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