Staff Engineer, Netskope
API Gateway
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Security cloud platform
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Security cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To redefine cloud, network, and data security, empowering security teams with the right balance of protection and speed they need to secure their organisation's digital transformation journey.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of industry experience developing large scale web based enterprise applications
- Broad architectural knowledge: distributed systems, infrastructure, databases, caches, queues
- Proficiency with modern programming languages such as Go, Typescript, Javascript, Python, Java, etc. Bonus points for Lua
- Experience with API design, HTTP concepts, API security
- Understanding of OSI networking protocol stack
- Ability and willingness to learn new technologies
- Experience building highly performant microservices
- Communication skills to build consensus among stakeholders
- You are someone who takes initiative and ownership to drive things forward as opposed to just following directions
- You love designing and building reliable, scalable and maintainable systems. You are experienced in providing architectural design guidance to others
- You communicate crisply and effectively to move things towards intended goals in an ambiguous context
- You take initiative to improve engineering productivity and have a track record of sensible results to show that
- BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
Desirable
- Expertise in Nginx and Kong Gateway setup and configuration
- Knowledge of API management concepts
- Experience with authentication standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, etc.)
- Experience with cloud computing platforms and concepts such as AWS, GCP, Azure
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
What the job involves
- The Netskope API Gateway team is part of Control Plane Core Services team and provides our customers with uniform and secure access to 1000+ Netskope APIs
- This highly visible team serves as a central point of contact and competence for all matters related to API design, presentation and delivery
- As a member of the API Gateway team, you will be driving the development of Netskope’s API platform
- You will be collaborating with a multitude of service teams, looking at a multitude of use-cases and facilitating the release of a variety of APIs to expand Netskope’s API platform
- You will work closely with our service teams on AI, Threat, DLP, IaaS and other APIs serving cutting edge technology products as we continue to expand our API platform and its capabilities
- Building and improving API platform capabilities to streamline API consumption experience as well as API lifecycle management
- Driving the development of standards and conventions of API presentation to ensure we deliver tasteful APIs for the best customer as well as developer experience
- Provide guidance on API design, presentation and delivery to cross-functional teams
- Designing and developing our highly available, scalable, low-latency, multi-tenant API gateway
- Taking ownership of projects and collaborating with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
- Contributing to ensure we have the right observability and developer productivity tools and practices in place
- Working with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
- Keeping abreast of the latest technologies and web methodologies, and helping to identify those that should be integrated into our products and development efforts in the future
Our take
As more and more businesses switch to the cloud, there is a growing concern over data breaches and outages, and companies need to invest more in stabilising their security tools. Netskope is a leader in cloud security, helping the world’s largest organisations take full advantage of the cloud and web without sacrificing their resilience to attacks.
The company's patented Cloud XD technology eliminates security blind spots, with the capability to quickly target and control activities across thousands of cloud services and millions of websites. With full control from one cloud, users benefit from 360-degree data protection that guards data everywhere, with advanced threat protection that stops more elusive attacks.
At the beginning of 2023, Netskope raised $401 million in funding that has been used to advance its secure access service edge (SASE) efforts. It continues to release new products, as well as report on the development of the cyberthreat landscape, with the potential to become a driving force and voice for improved cloud security.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2023
$401m
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2021
$300m
SERIES H
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Family Medical Leave
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Remote Work Program
- Dental Benefits
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Insurance Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Vision Benefits
- Commuter Benefits
- Company Outings
- Stocked Kitchen
- 401(K)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Days
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Sanjay Beri
(CEO)Previously worked for 8 years at Juniper Networks, holding various positions such as VP and General Manager of Access/Security and Pulse Business Unit, and Executive Sponsor of Juniper Engineering Operations.
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