Senior Cloud Firewall Engineer: Scale & Impact

Netskope; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock award program

Comprehensive health plan

Bonus plan eligibility

Job summary

Netskope in Santa Clara, CA seeks a senior engineer to design, develop, and operate a high-performance Cloud Firewall platform. You will work on scalable cloud systems, integrate with CI/CD, and collaborate with product and support teams to ensure reliability.

The role requires deep C/C++ and Python skills, experience with networking and security, and a track record building cloud products (IAAS/PAAS/SaaS). Netskope offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with data packet/flow based forwarding and firewalls.
• Hands-on with cloud product development (IAAS/PAAS/SaaS).
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming and Linux proficiency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and supporting high-performance, scalable cloud systems and services.
• Working with other service development teams, product management, and support to keep your services, and the ones they depend on, scalable, supportable, and available.
• Resolving customer issues quickly to improve response times and customer satisfaction.
• Evaluating open source technologies, picking the best fit, and contributing ideas back to the open source community.
• Help build automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration for the core system.

Skills

Data packet forwarding

Firewall experience

VPP/OFP/Quagga knowledge

Cloud product experience (IAAS/PAAS/Sa

NAT/IPsec/IPS knowledge

Virtualization & containers (K8s)

CI/CD (Jenkins/Spinnaker)

C/C++ & Linux

Python programming

Communication skills

Education

BSCS or equivalent

MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

Job description

Netskope in Santa Clara, CA seeks a senior engineer to design, develop, and operate a high-performance Cloud Firewall platform. You will work on scalable cloud systems, integrate with CI/CD, and collaborate with product and support teams to ensure reliability.

The role requires deep C/C++ and Python skills, experience with networking and security, and a track record building cloud products (IAAS/PAAS/SaaS). Netskope offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.