About the role

Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

The Netskope Cloud Firewall delivers Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) for egress traffic from a SASE architecture. Users and offices connect to NewEdge, the largest private security cloud in the world for firewall protection. With Cloud Firewall, organizations improve their security posture, while reducing operational costs compared to traditional hardware appliances.

What's in it for you

In this role, you will manage an engineering team and contribute to building state of the art tools and technologies to design, develop and deliver a performant, scalable system that processes network packets at cloud-scale.

What you will be doing

• Enabling teams to build well-designed quality software.
• Maintaining and increasing Product resiliency and sustainability.
• Establishing best practices and code hygiene in software development.
• Managing, coaching, mentoring and encouraging the growth and career progress of team members.
• Collaborating with product managers and architects to lead the design, development and delivery of key cloud security services running in ~100 data centers globally.

Required skills and experience

• A minimum of 12+ years of relevant work experience with 2+ years in a managerial role.
• Programming mastery in C/C++ , Go and Python
• A strong understanding of computer architecture – multi-threading, CPU scheduling, memory management.
• A proven history of building high-performance teams, and proficiency in defining effective engineering processes to accelerate the delivery of business results with high quality.
• Experience with network and security technologies (firewalls, web security, IDP / IPS, DNS-based security, etc.)
• Experience developing and maintaining distributed cloud services
• Demonstrable technical accomplishments and earned engineering credibility
• Proponent of TDD is a big plus, knowledge of various unit testing frameworks
• The ability to suggest coding best practices and bring in effective code review feedback.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate in an open, transparent and consistent manner with team and co-workers.
• A strong customer focus and willingness to  roll up your sleeves and respond to the needs of customers proactively and promptly.

Education

• BS CS or equivalent required, MS CS or equivalent strongly preferred