About the role

Today, there’s more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network, Data and AI security.

Within Netskope Engineering, we have invented a Next Generation SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) tool that gives enterprises workload and compliance visibility to protect critical data within their numerous Software-as-a-Service deployments. Now we are expanding these capabilities into more domains such as AI security. The research team for these products work as security advisors, content producers, pathfinders and minesweepers. The researcher's duties are to discover the best solutions to the problems our customers are facing before they know they have them and to find flaws in our design choices before we engineer them.

For this mission, we are looking for new security researchers to design novel product capabilities, security-focused application integrations and develop content for the platform.

What’s in it for you

We believe Netskope’s SPM team is the best place for you to work if you seek:

• An opportunity to shape the design of a novel product and have a significant role on the impact it makes in the enterprise security domain.

• To solve intellectually rewarding problems with a meaningful purpose.

• A position with high agency and trust on how you choose to work.

• An amazing work environment, competitive compensation, benefits and great perks.

• The rest of the great reasons to join Netskope as described in https://www.netskope.com/company/careers

What you will be doing

Some examples of the problems the team needs to solve could include:

• Consult and develop the strategic roadmap for novel security capabilities, translating customer needs and emerging threat trends into actionable product requirements.

• Investigate SaaS, Public Cloud and AI-service design and data models. Translate them to security graphs consumed by the SPM product. Study API design, hardening manuals and security best practices to discover the essential security caveats of the target applications.
• Find novel solutions to provide visibility, security, compliance and remediation tools for enterprise application environments.
• Explore different threat vectors for Public Cloud, SaaS and AI services.
• Support multiple stakeholders such as engineering, research, product management and customer success teams as a domain expert.
• Implement security and compliance content to the product. Help make the correct security configuration decisions on behalf of our customers.
• Public writing and presentation, such as publishing articles, blogs or papers in relevant conferences.
• Mentor, coach and lead a team of researchers to write detections to the highest quality.

Required skills and experience

• Strong Information Security fundamentals. 8+ years of work experience. Strong preference for candidates with a proven track record in Enterprise SaaS security environments.
• Experience implementing or managing public cloud security, security posture platforms (CSPM/DSPM/ASPM), an understanding of the cloud security ecosystem and enterprise security frameworks.
• Experience from security analysis work, enterprise SaaS deployment hardening duties or from security content development.
• Proficient enough in scripting language (Python, Shell) of one’s choice to be able to solve technical problems with code.
• Mature analytical mindset for security product development. Strong merits include experience in greenfield/novel product development, API-driven automation  and advanced programming capabilities.

Additional Skills

To perform this duty successfully, a candidate ideally has the following non-technical skills:

• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Fast learning skills, intuitiveness and creativity. Comfortable working in unknown domains.
• Be opinionated and not afraid of expressing oneself.
• Precise, careful and detail oriented.
• Ability to work in a geo-distributed cross-functional group in asynchronous fashion.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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