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# Staff / Sr. Staff Engineer, AI Gateway at Netskope

- **Company:** Netskope
- **Location:** Taipei, Taiwan
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions/?gh_jid=8171690

## 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/).

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

## About the Role

Netskope AI Gateway helps global enterprises securely adopt, scale, and govern Generative AI. We are seeking a Staff / Sr. Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and scale the core systems powering our AI Gateway product and its supporting microservices across SaaS and on-prem/hybrid environments.

Based in Taiwan, you will be a technical anchor for our core development team. This is a hands-on, high-impact individual contributor role focused on building highly scalable backend systems, with real ownership: the systems assigned to you are yours to design, build, and defend — depth matters more than volume. You will operate at the intersection of deep distributed systems engineering and cutting-edge AI technology. We are looking for an engineering leader who leverages AI to accelerate their workflows, but possesses the rigorous, production-grade coding skills required to architect complex systems, ensure enterprise-grade security, and validate AI-generated code.

## What You Will Be Doing

- Core Backend Development: Architect, build, and scale our core AI Gateway solutions, backend services, and high-throughput APIs. You will focus on writing highly concurrent, robust, and maintainable software, primarily in Golang.
- Command AI-Driven Engineering: Integrate AI and agent-based tooling (e.g., Copilots, code generators) into your daily development workflow to accelerate scaffolding, boilerplate, and hypothesis generation. Crucially, you will act as the gatekeeper: you must possess the deep software engineering expertise to audit AI-generated code, ensure architectural soundness, and reject code that introduces technical debt or security flaws.
- Design for Scale and Resilience: Build distributed systems capable of handling immense data payloads, streaming LLM responses (Server-Sent Events), and complex proxy routing without introducing unacceptable latency.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with global engineering, AI researchers, and product teams. Translate ambitious AI features into scalable, maintainable software architectures. Raise system design considerations before a single line of feature code is written.
- Push Engineering Excellence: Drive the technical culture of the Taiwan team through architectural reviews, code reviews, and mentorship. Advocate for best practices in modern, AI-augmented software development, security, and scalable system design.
- Deep Systems Debugging: While not primarily an incident support role, you will be the ultimate escalation point for the hardest systemic development roadblocks. Trace complex issues across asynchronous microservices, Kubernetes networking layers, and TLS/Proxy protocols to architect permanent structural fixes.
- Share Production Ownership: Own what you ship — participate in the team's shared on-call rotation, monitor the health of your services, and turn recurring incidents into structural fixes.

What Success Looks Like

- Architectural Delivery: You translate ambiguous product requirements into clean, scalable, and secure Golang microservices that handle high throughput and streaming responses with minimal latency.
- AI-Augmented Technical Rigor: You consistently accelerate your output using AI coding tools, but the code you merge is rigorously vetted, secure, and architecturally sound, ensuring all hallucinations are caught.
- Elevating Engineering Standards: The technical excellence of the Taiwan team rises because of your presence. Your design documents, code reviews, and mentorship prevent systemic debt before feature code is written.
- Definitive Problem Solving: When complex cross-boundary roadblocks occur, such as proxy bottlenecks or async race conditions, you deliver definitive root causes and permanent structural fixes.
- Systemic Resilience: The AI Gateway maintains high availability and strict security enforcement while gracefully handling the evolution of major LLM provider APIs and scaling customer traffic.

Required Skills and Experience

- Engineering Experience: 8-10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years deeply focused on backend development, cloud-native services, and distributed systems.
- Production-Grade Coding: Exceptional software engineering skills in Golang (highly preferred) or Python. You build modular libraries, reliable microservices, and scalable frameworks from scratch. You do not just prompt; you write software.
- AI-Assisted Workflow Proficiency: Demonstrated experience using advanced LLM-based coding agents in real engineering work. You understand where AI accelerates development and where it introduces technical debt or hallucinations, and you have a clear track record of catching what the AI misses.
- System Architecture: Expertise in microservices architecture, RESTful/gRPC API design, and navigating complex distributed system trade-offs (consistency vs. availability, caching strategies, asynchronous processing).
- Networking & Gateway Fundamentals: Deep understanding of Layer 4-7 networking: proxy architectures, HTTP/S, TLS interception, DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing.
- Infrastructure & Kubernetes: Deep, hands-on experience developing for and debugging services on Docker/Kubernetes. You understand K8s networking, service discovery, and deployment strategies in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Autonomy & Communication: Track record of taking under-specified, ambiguous problems and driving them to working software solutions. Exceptional verbal and written English for complex technical collaboration across global teams.

## Nice to Have

- GenAI Ecosystem: Familiarity with 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.
- Cybersecurity Domain: Background in Secure Web Gateways (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), or Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
- Cloud Platforms: Experience developing and operating scalable services in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Event Streaming: Experience with message brokers and event-driven architectures (e.g., Apache Kafka).
- Observability: Strong grasp of embedding observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) directly into application code.

Education

- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience required; MS strongly preferred.

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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