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# Staff Engineer, AI Gateway at Netskope

- **Company:** Netskope
- **Location:** Taipei, Taiwan
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions/?gh_jid=8211204

## Job description

Join the Future of Security at Netskope

Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK) is a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era. We secure and accelerate cloud, data, and AI in real time, everywhere. Thousands of customers, including more than 30 of the Fortune 100, trust the Netskope One platform, its Zero Trust Engine, and the powerful NewEdge network to gain full visibility and control without performance trade-offs.

At Netskope, our technology is driven by our greatest strength: our people. We believe that belonging powers innovation, and success is both personal and organizational. We embrace differences in gender, ethnicity, beliefs, ability, and identity, creating an environment where every voice is heard and respected. We empower our employees to bring their authentic selves to work, grow their careers through continuous education and mentorship, and lead with transparency and curiosity. Join a team where you belong, where you are encouraged to be an entrepreneur, and where together, we continue to redefine the landscape of security.

Visit [Careers at Netskope](https://www.netskope.com/company/careers) to learn more. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netskope) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/netskope/).

## About the Role

Netskope Secure Web Gateway (SWG) governs how global enterprises reach the web and cloud, and Real-time Protection (RTP) policy is how customers define what is allowed, blocked, or inspected. The RTP team builds the backend services and APIs that manage that policy and deliver it to the Netskope platform worldwide.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and scale these services. This is a hands-on IC role with genuine ownership: you take services from design through production and are accountable for how they behave.

We work in an AI-augmented engineering culture. AI tools accelerate us, but the engineer is always the author. We want someone who can direct AI toward correct, generic solutions, recognize when it produced something that merely works instead of something that is right, and hold every line of code to the same standard: lean, meaningful, and exactly fit for its purpose.

## What You Will Be Doing

- Service Architecture and Implementation. Design, build, and scale concurrent, robust microservices and APIs in Golang.
- AI as a Force Multiplier, You as the Reviewer. Use AI coding agents daily; specify problems precisely, push for generic reusable solutions, and reject output that adds technical debt or security flaws.
- Codebase Stewardship. Keep code lean and purposeful, consolidate common patterns so duplication goes down, and judge PRs on correctness, edge cases, tests, and abstraction level.
- Distributed Systems Correctness. Propagate policy configuration reliably to a global dataplane, reasoning about consistency, idempotency, caching, and failure modes.
- Customer Issue Resolution. Troubleshoot bugs and issues raised by customers in a timely manner, and turn recurring ones into structural fixes.
- Partnering Across Teams. Work with product, UI, dataplane, QA, and platform teams across time zones; raise design concerns early.
- Raising the Technical Bar. Shape engineering culture through design, architecture, and code reviews and mentorship.
- Operating What You Build. Join the shared on-call rotation and monitor the health of your services.

Required Skills and Experience

- Background. 8+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years on backend services and distributed systems.
- Golang Depth. Strong Golang skills across interface and package design, error handling, concurrency, performance profiling, and table-driven unit testing; hands-on with Gin and gRPC.
- Clean Code Mindset. Lean, readable, purposeful code; you know when an abstraction is earned and when it is premature.
- Practical AI Tooling Experience. Real-world use of LLM-based coding agents, with examples of steering them toward correct solutions and catching what they missed.
- Review Insight. Evaluate PR quality and give specific, well-reasoned feedback that improves both the code and the engineer.
- Distributed Architecture. Microservice patterns, REST/gRPC API design, event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), and caching (e.g., Redis).
- Databases. NoSQL and SQL databases such as MongoDB and MySQL, including schema, sharding, and index design.
- Cloud-Native Delivery. Develop, deploy, and debug services on Kubernetes (e.g., Helm), and write application-level metrics (e.g., Prometheus).
- Ownership and Communication. Drive under-specified problems to shipped software. Strong verbal and written English. Proactive, timely communication; track cross-team dependencies and timelines and escalate risks early.

What Makes You Stand Out

- Background in Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust, CASB, or DLP products.
- Ability to benchmark competing technologies and justify architectural choices with measured trade-offs.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS control planes or policy/configuration systems.
- Hands-on cloud development on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Knowledge of emerging GenAI and cloud service security challenges and best practices.
- Experience in regulated environments such as FedRAMP.

## #LI-SK3

Netskope is committed to implementing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. Netskope does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on religion, race, color, sex, marital or veteran statues, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which we operate.

Netskope respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us, please refer to [Netskope's Privacy Policy](https://www.netskope.com/privacy-policy) for more details.

The application window for this position is expected to close within 50 days. You may apply by filling out the below information, or visiting our [Netskope Careers site.](https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions)

## About Netskope

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Netskope provides a cloud-native, AI-powered Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that converges security and networking to enable fast and secure access to cloud, web, and AI applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Late-stage, well-funded with over $1.5B in total investments)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Sanjay Beri (CEO), Lebin Cheng, Ravi Chandra, Krishna Narayanaswamy

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Cloud Security, Network Security, Cybersecurity (SASE, Zero Trust, Data Loss Prevention)
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises (serves over 4,000 customers globally, including Fortune 100 companies), B2B.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To secure the cloud and AI era with a platform that provides a phenomenal user experience, enabling organizations to safely adopt cloud, SaaS, and AI innovation.

## Products & Services
Netskope operates a unified platform called **Netskope One**, which includes several key services:
- **[Netskope One SSE (Security Service Edge)]**: A core component that includes cloud-delivered security services like a Next-Gen Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).
- **[Netskope One Private Access]**: Modern, high-performance zero-trust access to secure private applications, replacing legacy VPNs.
- **[Netskope One Data Security / DLP]**: A unified data loss prevention service that uses patented AI and ML to protect data wherever it lives and moves, across cloud, web, and private apps.
- **[Netskope One AI Security]**: A service designed to secure every AI interaction, providing high-performance access and protection across public, private, and agentic AI use cases.
- **[Netskope NewEdge Network]**: The largest private security cloud and network, acting as the backbone of the platform. It is located in more than 80 regions with nearly 4,000 network adjacencies to ensure high performance.
- **[Netskope One Client]**: The industry’s first unified SASE client, providing a single agent for remote user access, endpoint DLP, and SD-WAN.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Conflicting reports exist; the company is well-funded and valued in the billions based on its funding rounds, but an exact valuation is not publicly available).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds **$1.5 billion**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by premier investors including **Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, and Sequoia Capital**. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **4,000+ customers** worldwide, including **Fortune 100** companies.
    - **~3,000 employees** globally.
    - **250+ patents** (ranging from AI-powered data protection to private cloud networks). [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company)
    - Recognized as a Leader in the **2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms** and **Security Service Edge**. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/)
    - **30%+** of employees are dedicated to R&D and engineering. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Platform (The Power of "One")**: Netskope offers a single platform (Netskope One) with one console, one client, and one private security cloud. This reduces complexity and cost compared to competitors with disjointed solutions.
- **NewEdge Network**: The largest private security cloud and network, providing optimized connectivity and processing for a best-in-class user experience.
- **AI-Native Security**: The platform uses patented AI and ML techniques to adapt security based on the context of every interaction, providing deep visibility and protection for modern threats like GenAI use.
- **Founding Team & Talent**: Built by early architects from security and networking leaders like AWS, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco, fostering a deep well of expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **SASE Market Leadership**: Continuing to lead and expand in the Secure Access Service Edge market, consolidating security and networking functions.
- **AI Security**: A major priority is securing the use of Generative AI and agentic AI, ensuring enterprises can adopt AI safely without risking data loss.
- **Simplifying Infrastructure**: Reducing cost and complexity for customers by offering a single, cloud-native platform that replaces multiple legacy appliances (VPN, firewalls, DLP).
- **Global Expansion**: Maintaining and expanding its global NewEdge network footprint to ensure high performance everywhere work happens.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Collaboration**: Described as a collaborative and transparent environment where "founders and leaders work shoulder-to-shoulder" and "the best ideas win." It is a **Certified Great Place to Work** with an 86% recommendation rate on Glassdoor. [glassdoor.com](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Netskope-EI_IE717917.11,19.htm)
- **Innovation-First**: With over 30% of the workforce in R&D and 250+ patents, the company is heavily focused on building cutting-edge technology. The hiring philosophy is to "hire people who are better than you, then empower them." [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Has a strong focus on belonging, with a thriving women’s group called the **Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON)** and a commitment to equal employment opportunity. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company/careers)
- **Compensation & Perks**: Offers competitive compensation, benefits, and perks including running, hiking, and biking groups, and community volunteer days. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company/careers)
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid work is supported, reflecting the company's own product philosophy of enabling secure access from anywhere.
- **Global Presence**: Offices in Santa Clara (HQ), St. Louis, UK, France, Spain, Australia, Singapore, India, Japan, and Taiwan.

## Sources
1. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/)
2. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company/careers)
3. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company)
4. [glassdoor.com](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Netskope-EI_IE717917.11,19.htm)
5. [netskope.com](https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions)

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