Sr. Staff Engineer, SASE Engineering

Netskope; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading cloud security firm based in Madrid is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead scaling initiatives for backend services. Candidates should have 8 years of experience in software engineering, including 4 years in production backend services using Go. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers and designing new services. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in gRPC and distributed systems, ensuring reliability and performance as they develop solutions for real-world data challenges.

Servicios

Catered lunches

Employee recognition events

Open desk layouts fostering collaboration

Formación

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 4 years building production backend services in Go.
• Strong understanding of service reliability practices.

Responsabilidades

• Lead scaling initiatives for backend services, identifying bottlenecks.
• Mentor a team of engineers providing technical leadership.
• Design and build new Go services as needed.

Conocimientos

Go

gRPC

Distributed Systems

Cloud Architecture

Observability Tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Educación

BS or MS in Computer Science

Descripción del empleo

About Netskope

Today theres 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 and Data Security.

Since 2012 we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara St. Louis Bangalore London Paris Melbourne Taipei and Tokyo. Our core values are openness honesty and transparency and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships collaboration and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON) we strive to keep work fun supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Netskope.

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.

By bringing together zero trust security with network optimization Netskope Borderless WAN allows customers to confidently provide secure high-performance access to every remote user device site and cloud. It also simplifies the on-boarding of traffic to the Netskope Security Cloud and NewEdge network so customers can on-board more quickly and efficiently.

Whats in it for you

The BWAN Data Engineering team builds and optimizes systems spanning data ingestion processing storage optimization and more. We work closely with engineers and the product team to build highly scalable systems that tackle real-world data problems and provide our customers with accurate real-time fault tolerant solutions to their ever-growing data needs.

We are looking for skilled engineers experienced with building and optimizing cloud-scale distributed systems to develop our next-generation ingestion processing and storage solutions. You will work closely with other engineers and the product team to build highly scalable systems that tackle real-world data problems. Our customers depend on us to provide accurate real-time and fault tolerant solutions to their ever growing data needs. This is a hands‑on impactful role that will help lead development validation publishing and maintenance of logical and physical data models that support various analytics and OLTP environments.

What you will be doing

• Lead scaling initiatives for our backend services identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to support our growing traffic and user base.
• Mentor and guide a small team of engineers providing technical leadership through code reviews design discussions and hands‑on collaboration
• Design and build new Go services when business needs arise establishing patterns and practices that other teams can follow
• Champion code quality improvements through better testing strategies refactoring initiatives and development tooling
• Improve service reliability and uptime by implementing robust monitoring implementing graceful degradation patterns and addressing systemic issues
• Work closely with product infrastructure and other engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet both technical and business objectives
• Participate in technical planning and roadmap discussions helping shape the evolution of our backend architecture

Required skills and experience

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience with at least 4 years building production backend services in Go
• Deep expertise with gRPC including service design performance optimization and debugging complex distributed systems issues
• Proven track record scaling backend services to handle significant traffic growth while maintaining low latency and high availability
• Strong understanding of service reliability practices including monitoring alerting incident response and post‑mortem analysis
• Experience implementing and enforcing code quality standards through automated testing code review practices and CI / CD pipelines
• Solid grasp of distributed systems concepts : consistency models fault tolerance load balancing and service mesh architectures
• Proficiency with observability tooling (distributed tracing metrics structured logging) to diagnose production issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have :

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
• Background with streaming platforms or message queuing systems
• Knowledge of Protocol Buffers schema evolution and API versioning strategies
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and their managed services for high‑availability architectures
• Experience with ADR and other product processes
• Prior experience working in a distributed (remote) team environment

Education

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent training / knowledge

Netskope is committed to implementing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. Netskope does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on religion race color sex marital or veteran statues age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition sexual orientation gender identity / expression genetic information pregnancy (including childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which we operate.

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Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1