About the role

Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

The Productivity Engineering Team at Netskope owns CI/CD and productivity for our 500+ engineer product development organization. We design, develop and evolve CI/CD as a service in the cloud, and tooling/systems that  increase the productivity of Netskope Engineering, and allow us to quickly and efficiently build, test, deploy and monitor world-class cloud security products at scale. The services and tooling you develop will span the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including: CI/CD, and Developer Experience.

Job Overview

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our team of experts to build applications that help improve the engineering productivity at Netskope. You will be part of an agile, fast-paced engineering team focused on CICD, Developer experience and tools. You will be well suited to this role if you are driven by high quality, high-velocity software delivery challenges and using innovative and cutting-edge solutions to achieve these goals. We use the most modern technologies and toolchains to accomplish our goals.

The functions to be undertaken in this position are as follows:

• 70% Coding, debugging and Unit testing - you test your code thoroughly and automate it
• 15% Innovate - explore, research, prototype new ideas that help propel the team goals
• 15% monitor, manage and scale the deployment of various applications developed by the team

Job Responsibilities

• Work with a cross-section of engineering teams to develop and implement best-in-class CI/CD system
• Design and code tools, applications and dashboards to improve productivity of engineering as well as non-engineering teams. 
• Take complete ownership of the work done and mentor junior engineers to deliver world-class, reliable applications
• Ensure the infrastructure for CI/CD, Tools and Applications is elastic, reliable and resilient. 

Preferred Qualifications

• B.E /B.Tech /M.Tech Computer Science degree from a recognised and accredited university/college. 
• Minimum 8+ years of work experience in IT industry
• Minimum of 3 years in DevOps and/or CI/CD

Preferred Technical Skills:

• 8 years+ experience with building web/cloud scale applications 
• Solid understanding of Virtualization and Container technologies and experience in working with Docker and Kubernetes is required
• Demonstrated Python/GoLang development experience, preferably with 2+ years’ experience in the language
• Experience with AWS Cloud is critical
• Strong knowledge of automating systems and deployments using tools such as Shell Script, Github Actions, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Packer (or any other IaaC tools)
• Expert level understanding of Linux/Ubuntu is a must
• Should be familiar/open to work in spec driven development 
• Proven track record of delivering high quality, reliable systems and environments for development teams.

Desired Technical Skills:

• Experience in programming with Golang will be a plus
• Experience with other cloud platforms like GCP is a plus

Additional Skills

• Ability to multi-task; working on multiple project teams and wearing multiple hats is very common at Netskope
• Strong logical and analytical skills is must
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills are important in our fast-paced environment
• Drive: Self-motivated engineer with intellectual curiosity and a strong go-getter attitude. Passion and energy to implement quality technical solutions. 
• Communication: Superior communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate problems, solutions, risks, rewards etc. (written and verbal)
• Analytical: Able to see gaps and areas of improvement in process as well as technologies, providing recommendations and taking the initiative to fix issues are qualities we love to see in our teams.

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