Staff Engineer, Windows Client

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.

Netskope One SASE combines Netskope’s market-leading Intelligent SSE with its next-generation Borderless SD-WAN to protect users, applications, and data everywhere with AI-powered zero trust security, while providing fast, reliable access and optimized connectivity to any application from any network location or device, including IoT– at scale.

What's in it for you

We are looking for experienced Windows Software Engineers who are highly-focused on the quality of their software, and who can work in a fast paced environment at the cutting-edge of WAN edge & Cloud networking. If you have an eye for delivering high-quality, high-performance, scalable, automation-driven software, and you would like to participate in all stages of product and feature design, development, and deployment, we would like to speak with you.

What you will be doing

• Working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment developing multi-desktop OS client software, with an emphasis on our next-gen Windows client.
• Partnering with engineering and product management teams to architect and build a highly available, performant, desktop solution.
• Writing highly scalable, production ready code
• Improving performance and scalability
• Performing root cause analysis of production errors and resolving technical issues
• Developing procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Interfacing with QE and ensuring the scope of QE testing meets requirements

Required skills and experience

• 8+ years experience developing and troubleshooting Windows networking software
• A solid understanding of networking concepts - TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, IPSec, VPN
• Experience with Windows kernel development and Windows Filtering platform
• Strong C++ programming skills and fluency with algorithms, data structures (STL), complexity analysis, and software design
• Excellent system-level design skills
• Experience with Windows installation technologies
• Good understanding of different linux distributions (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS)
• Experience with Go is desirable but not required
• Experience with HTTP based APIs / REST is desirable but not required
• Experience working in an “Automation only” environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work within a geo-distributed, cross-functional team
• A demonstrated ability to own and deliver projects independently
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with developers, Product Managers, etc.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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