About the role

Netskope is a recognized leader in Security Service Edge (SSE), holding the leader position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) for four consecutive years and positioned furthest in vision for both SSE and SASE Platforms reports as of July 2025. 

As the core service of Netskope One platform and Zero Trust Engine, Netskope Private Access (NPA) provides integrated secure access for many large Fortune 500 enterprises everyday to their private applications based on user identity and policy, which significantly improves the security posture for enterprise network and private applications by providing zero trust application access instead of virtual private network access. 

Given Netskope’s continued strong growth in the ZTNA and SSE markets, our team is expanding, making this an exciting time to join us! This is a technical leadership position, who can provide architectural and technical expertise to address performance, stability, security, and resiliency challenges. 

Click here to watch a demo video to learn how NPA works.

What’s in it for you

The NPA engineering team is a cross-functional group of talented engineers responsible for the end-to-end development and operation of NPA. As a key member of this team you will play a technical leadership role in the continuing development and evolution of this cloud-native service.

What you will be doing

• 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.

Required skills and experience

• 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.

Education

BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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