Senior Staff Software Engineer - Endpoint Security & Cloud

Netskope; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Netskope is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and scale backend services for its Cloud Security solutions. You will own end-to-end initiatives, set API architecture, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, scalable systems.

Emphasis on CI/CD, observability, and AI-enabled development, with mentoring responsibilities and strong communication. The role targets professionals with deep distributed systems experience and a track record of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services using Golang.
• Experience deploying and scaling services within cloud infrastructure.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to express complex technical ideas clearly.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems (Git, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (Datadog, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end from design through production deployment and operation.
• Set architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services for high availability and performance at scale.
• Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Prioritize initiatives and workstreams to deliver high-impact outcomes and mitigate risks.
• Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Set standards for monitoring, alerting, on-call processes, and post-incident analysis.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and uphold technical rigor and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers to foster ownership and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to AI development best-practices and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.

Skills

Golang

Distributed backend

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

AI-assisted development

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree or higher preferred

Tools

Git

GitLab

Jenkins

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Netskope is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and scale backend services for its Cloud Security solutions. You will own end-to-end initiatives, set API architecture, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, scalable systems.

Emphasis on CI/CD, observability, and AI-enabled development, with mentoring responsibilities and strong communication. The role targets professionals with deep distributed systems experience and a track record of