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Netskope · 1 day ago

Sr. Staff Engineer, Cloud Firewall Forwarding

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date8+ years exp

Netskope is a leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network and Data Security. The role involves designing, developing, and supporting high performance and scalable cloud systems and services, while coordinating with various teams to ensure service availability and customer satisfaction.

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Responsibilities

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 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

Qualification

Cloud products developmentData packet forwardingNetwork firewalls knowledgeCI/CD toolsC programmingPython programmingVirtualization knowledgeCommunication

Required

8+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with Data packet/flow based forwarding, Firewalls and tunneling protocols
Experience with one or more of VPP, OFP, Quagga
Experience building cloud products – IAAS, PAAS, SaaS
Knowledge of Network and Application firewalls like NAT, IPsec, IPS
Knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins or Spinnaker
Good C and Linux programming skills including data structure, auto-scaling and performance
Experience programming with Python
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
BSCS or equivalent required

Preferred

MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
OVS experience is a plus
Knowledge of virtualization, NFVs, VM's, Containers, Kubernetes is a plus

Benefits

Catered lunches
Office celebrations
Employee recognition events
Social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON)

Company

Netskope

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Netskope is an IT firm that specializes in real-time security, stopping threats, protecting data, and network management services.
dateFounded in 2012
location
Santa Clara, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://www.netskope.com

H1B Sponsorship

Netskope has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (39)
2024 (70)
2023 (40)
2022 (97)
2021 (96)
2020 (37)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.44B
Key Investors
Morgan StanleyICONIQ GrowthSequoia Capital Global Equities
2025-09-18IPO
2024-09-30Series Unknown
2023-01-05Convertible Note· $401M

Leadership Team

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Sanjay Beri
CEO & Founder
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Krishna Narayanaswamy
Founder & CTO
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