Engineering Leader — Data Lineage & Secure Platform

Netskope; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

Netskope in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Data Lineage team. You will lead a high-performance platform that traces data movement across cloud applications, endpoints, and on‑premises systems, with a focus on streaming, large-scale database optimization, and graph traversal to produce explainable provenance.

This role blends technical leadership with product ownership: shaping the roadmap, mentoring engineers, and steering architectural direction to align with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years leading teams.
• Track record of partnering with product managers to define scope and ship outcomes.
• Experience owning high-throughput, distributed streaming systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong ability to translate complex trade-offs into actionable decisions for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product roadmap for the data lineage platform.
• Set architectural direction for a high-throughput, multi-tenant system.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, and engineering teams to align requirements and dependencies.
• Lead incident response, establish SLOs, and drive reliability improvements.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Product Leadership

Strategic Communication

Bias for Action

Distributed Systems

System Architecture

Database Architecture

Graph Modeling

Operational Excellence

Education: BSCS

Education

BSCS or equivalent

MSCS or equivalent (preferred)

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

Netskope in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Data Lineage team. You will lead a high-performance platform that traces data movement across cloud applications, endpoints, and on‑premises systems, with a focus on streaming, large-scale database optimization, and graph traversal to produce explainable provenance.

This role blends technical leadership with product ownership: shaping the roadmap, mentoring engineers, and steering architectural direction to align with