Staff Engineer, DSPM

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.

Within Netskope Engineering, the DSPM team is responsible for building cloud-scale Data Security Posture Management that give enterprises visibility, compliance for structured and unstructured data stores.

We are a distributed team of engineers who have a passion for learning new skills and building great products. Our product has been built from the ground up in Scala, on top of the Lightbend stack (Play/Akka). As a member of the DSPM team, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative and scalable systems to protect the exponentially increasing amount of enterprise data.

What's in it for you

We’re looking to hire backend software engineers who are excited to learn new technologies and comfortable diving into different levels of our stack. For this position, we are seeking experienced candidates with specialized skills that are able to jump in, learn quickly, and contribute wherever is needed. As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impact and you’ll help shape the culture of the company.

What you will be doing

• Work with the engineering team to design, build, and test our cloud-based platform including front-end, back-end, and services.
• Participate in feature estimation, feature prioritization, sprint planning, biweekly sprints, code reviews, and sprint retros.
• Contribute to product development: understand customer needs and work with the product team to design, plan, and implement new features.
• Support early customers of our software by investigating and fixing production issues.
• Help us improve our processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility, cost, and reliability.

Required skills and experience

• 6 - 9 years of software development experience with enterprise-grade software.
• Must have experience in building scalable, high-performance cloud services.
• Expert coding skills in Scala or Java backend.
• Deep knowledge on databases, optimization of queries, views.
• Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
• Expertise in building scalable event based asynchronous systems based on the microservices architecture.
• Experience working with docker and kubernetes.
• Willing to learn, challenge yourself, and share your ideas with the team.
• Able to multitask and wear many hats in a fast-paced environment. This week you might lead the design of a new feature, next week you are fixing a critical bug or improving our CI infrastructure.
• Cybersecurity experience and adversarial thinking.
• Must have expertise in building REST APIs.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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