Netskope · 2 weeks ago
Sr. Staff Engineer, Cloud Firewall Forwarding
Netskope is a leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network, and Data Security. They are seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to design, develop, and deliver high-performance cloud systems and services while ensuring scalability and supportability for their Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering.
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
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. OVS experience is a plus
Experience building cloud products – IAAS, PAAS, SaaS
Knowledge of Network and Application firewalls like NAT, IPsec, IPS
Knowledge of virtualization, NFVs, VM's, Containers, Kubernetes is a plus
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
Benefits
Participation in a bonus plan (for non-sales roles)
Stock award program
Comprehensive health plan
Company
Netskope
Netskope is an IT firm that specializes in real-time security, stopping threats, protecting data, and network management services.
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.44BKey Investors
Morgan StanleyICONIQ GrowthSequoia Capital Global Equities
2025-09-18IPO
2024-09-30Series Unknown
2023-01-05Convertible Note· $401M
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