Sr. Manager, Engineering, CASB Inline (App-Connectors)

Netskope; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Netskope is seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead their CASB Inline team in Bengaluru, India. You will oversee the architecture and design of scalable cloud-based products and manage high-performance engineering teams.

Applicants must possess over 15 years of relevant experience and strong leadership skills. The role demands a deep understanding of networking and security concepts, making it crucial for candidates to have technical proficiency along with exceptional communication abilities.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant work experience with 4+ years in a managerial role.
• Proven ability to lead high-performance engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of Networking concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor team members to promote their professional growth.
• Oversee design, development, and delivery of cloud security services.
• Enhance product resilience, reliability, and scalability.
• Promote best practices in software development lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Technical expertise in networking

Communication skills

Team mentoring

Customer focus

Education

BSCS or equivalent

MSCS or equivalent

Tools

Wireshark

Fiddler

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

About the role

The Netskope CASB Inline team is responsible for architecting and designing a modular and scalable front end, along with backend services, to support the CASB-Inline management plane. The team also builds and maintain multiple AI/ML pipelines, including RAG and Copilot-style capabilities.

What’s in it for you

In this role, you will manage a high performing engineering team and contribute to building our cloud based CASB Inline products. Netskope has been recognized by Gartner as a market leader in the 2023 Security Service Edge (SSE) Magic Quadrant.

What you will be doing

• Managing, mentoring, and coaching team members to foster their professional growth and support their career progression.
• Partnering with product managers and architects to oversee the design, development, and delivery of critical cloud security services deployed across 100+ data centers worldwide.
• Driving efforts to enhance product resilience and sustainability, ensuring reliable performance and scalability.
• Empowering teams to create high-quality, well-architected software solutions.
• Establishing and promoting best practices and maintaining high standards of code quality and hygiene throughout the software development lifecycle.

Required Skills and Experience

Professional Experience

• Minimum of 15+ years of relevant work experience, with at least 4+ years in a managerial role.
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performance engineering teams.

Leadership & Process Management

• Expertise in defining and implementing effective engineering processes to drive high-quality business outcomes efficiently.
• Proven ability to manage and inspire diverse teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Experience in building a psychologically safe environment that encourages open communication, ownership, and creative problem-solving.
• Skilled in proactive performance management, including setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, and conducting effective performance reviews.

Technical Expertise

• Strong fundamental understanding in Networking concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, HTTP2, HTTP3, WebSockets, DNS, TLS/SSL, QUIC.
• Familiarity with web data formats like JSON, MIME, XML, HTML.
• Hands‑on experience with traffic analysis tools like Wireshark or Fiddler is a must.
• Good understanding of security products like SWG, Web proxies or cloud security solutions is a big plus.
• Experience with IPS/IDP signature development is a big plus.
• Proficiency in backend languages like Go, Python.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML pipelines.
• Familiarity with concepts like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM-based copilots.
• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Software Development Practices

• Advocate for Test-Driven Development (TDD) with expertise in a wide range of unit testing frameworks.
• Advanced understanding of algorithms and data structures for real‑time, in‑line data processing.
• Skilled in recommending coding best practices and providing effective, actionable code review feedback.

Soft Skills

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage openly, transparently, and consistently with teams and stakeholders.
• Strong customer focus, with a proactive, hands‑on approach to meeting customer needs promptly.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred.

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.