Netskope: Sr.Staff Engineer,Secure Web Gateway. — India

About Netskope

Netskope develops security and networking technology for cloud, data and AI environments. Its employer introduction identifies the Netskope One platform, a zero-trust engine and the NewEdge network as parts of that offering. The business describes giving organisations visibility and control while maintaining the performance of access to applications and information. This connects cybersecurity with networking: the products address both how digital resources are reached and how their use is controlled and protected.

The position and its setting

Netskope lists Sr.Staff Engineer,Secure Web Gateway. in India, under reference 8176573. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Cloud Data Path
• Employer listing date: 3 September 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Setting and driving the overall architectural design and strategic technical directions for the SWG team
• Work: with Product Management to understand customer requirements and provide architectural guidance
• Delivery: technical leadership by sharing and adapting industry leading practices for the benefit of the company
• Building: scalable and performant services that inspect various network protocols, such as HTTP/HTTPS, at line rate using advanced data structures and algorithms in C, C++, Python
• For example, analyze content in real-time to provide security and perform deep inspection of traffic in near real time
• Design, architect and develop high performance, scalable cloud-based security systems to detect and mitigate threats on LLM APIs and Generative AI applications
• Integration: with other features like DLP and Threat protection
• Building: sophisticated key management algorithms

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Understanding requirement specs and designing and implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability for data plane
• 15+ years of overall experience, including 8+ years of experience building high-performance networking software and cloud services
• Expertise in building high throughput and low latency data systems, such as networking from Layer 3 to Layer 7, web proxy, security, monitoring and observability, web and mobile applications, data processing, etc
• Expertise in dealing with complex architectural problems across multiple products and at the same time handling design issues at module level
• Programming mastery in key programming languages (C/C++ or python), and ability to review code in these and other popular programming languages
• AI-Assisted Workflow Proficiency: Demonstrated experience using advanced LLM-based coding agents in real engineering work
• Experience designing large-scale, secure and cloud-native systems
• Understanding: computer architecture – multi-threading, CPU scheduling, memory management with practical knowledge of Linux at system/kernel level
• Hands-on experience handling complex and ambiguous customer issues
• Persistence in accomplishing objectives despite uncertain situations, obstacles, and setbacks
• Communication skills and the ability to position views and arguments appropriately to win support
• The ability to negotiate skillfully in tough situations in order to win concessions without damaging relationships, and to respond effectively to the reactions and positions of others
• Confidence under pressure, a mature EQ, and the ability to show a high degree of self control while maintaining a positive attitude despite adversity
• Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones
• The ability to represent the company in appropriate external forums and industry events promoting thought technical leadership
• Additional Skill and Knowledge
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills using debuggers like gdb and tools like Valgrind
• Proponent of TDD a big plus, knowledge of various unit testing frameworks
• Experience: threat detection, DLP, and security policy enforcement
• Familiarity: the request/response schemas of major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), streaming formats, agentic protocols such as MCP and A2A, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• MS Computer Science strongly preferred

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: India

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• In this role you will be a key member of the NG-SWG team supporting our in-line Secure Web Gateway (SWG) products, which have been recognized by Gartner as market leaders in their Magic Quadrant reports:
• Gartner 2026 SSE Magic Quadrant
• Gartner 2026 SASE Magic Quadrant

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Pay and application dates

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Relevant skills

• Python
• C++
• MCP
• APIs
• AI/ML
• LLMs
• Linux
• AI
• sustainability
• communication
• commercial negotiations
• problem resolution