Netskope · 1 week ago
Distinguished Engineer, NPA
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expNetskope is a recognized leader in Security Service Edge (SSE), providing integrated secure access for large enterprises to their private applications. The Distinguished Engineer, NPA will play a technical leadership role, driving architectural design and making key technical decisions to enhance the security posture of enterprise networks.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Setting and driving the overall architectural design and strategic technical directions for the NPA team as well as influencing overall company-wide SSE architecture strategy
Making important technical decisions on behalf of the engineering team. Advising and providing technical recommendations for leaders at the VP level and above
Understanding requirement specs and designing and implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability
Working with Product Management to understand customer requirements and provide architectural guidance
Working with customer support teams and handling unstructured and very complex production issues within NPA and spanning multiple Netskope products
Connecting with SRE, operation, and platform engineering teams and provide technical guidance
Personally connecting with the Netskope’s vision and communicating the vision in a simple and compelling way to energize and motivate the team
Providing technical leadership by sharing and adapting industry leading practices for the benefit of the company
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience building high-performance networking software and cloud services
Expertise in multiple domains of SSE and SASE products, such as networking from Layer 3 to Layer 7, security, monitoring and observability, web and mobile applications, data processing, etc
Expertise in dealing with complex architectural problems across multiple products and at the same time handling design issues at module level
Programming mastery in key programming languages (C/C++ or golang), and ability to review code in these and other popular programming languages
Hands-on experience handling complex and ambiguous customer issues. Persistence in accomplishing objectives despite uncertain situations, obstacles, and setbacks
Strong communication skills and the ability to position views and arguments appropriately to win support. The ability to negotiate skillfully in tough situations in order to win concessions without damaging relationships, and to respond effectively to the reactions and positions of others
Confidence under pressure, a mature EQ, and the ability to show a high degree of self control while maintaining a positive attitude despite adversity
Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones
The ability to represent the company in appropriate external forums and industry events promoting thought technical leadership
BSCS or equivalent required
Preferred
MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
Benefits
Catered lunches
Office celebrations
Employee recognition events
Social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON)
Company
Netskope
Netskope is an IT firm that specializes in real-time security, stopping threats, protecting data, and network management services.
1001-5000 employees
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2025 (39)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.44BKey Investors
Morgan StanleyICONIQ GrowthSequoia Capital Global Equities
2025-09-18IPO
2024-09-30Series Unknown
2023-01-05Convertible Note· $401M
Leadership Team
Sanjay Beri
CEO & Founder
Krishna Narayanaswamy
Founder & CTO
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