Systems Engineer

About Netskope

Netskope is redefining Cloud, Network and Data Security. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes. Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Paris, Melbourne, Taipei, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. We strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Netskope.

Job Purpose

As a Systems Architect, you will design, develop, and implement strategies and solutions for Netskope’s production services. You will lead strategic and tactical infrastructure initiatives by designing, building, and managing complex computing systems based primarily on microservice architectures. In addition, you will provide technical leadership by sharing best practices and technology trends, and acting as a technical mentor related to your area(s) of expertise.

Essential Functions

• Embrace our corporate culture by fostering collaboration without boundaries, encourage teamwork and communication that is clear, open, and honest.
• Develop and actively supply implementations, service definitions, component interfaces, and experimental prototypes to the operations and engineering teams for systems within a product or service family.
• Design, develop, test, document, and implement strategies, automation, and solutions for Netskope’s production services.
• Understand and be able to communicate the nonfunctional requirements for the system (security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc.).
• Become a subject matter expert on all aspects of designated Netskope products, services, and their dependent infrastructure in order to support and improve the reliability, function, and scalability of these solutions.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a combination of comparable education and experience typically obtained by 5 or more years of related work experience.
• 5+ years demonstrated expertise in designing, building, and managing complex computing systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of computer internal architecture and design, including working knowledge of specific details and design of some variants of the *NIX based operating systems.
• Experience with business requirements and functional specifications regarding interface development, functional architecture, and distributed software design/implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to develop large-scale functional system architectures and implementation designs, in collaboration with stakeholders in a distributed workforce environment.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to act as a subject matter expert, tracking technology/industry trends, and to provide data-driven reasoning for recommending technology paths.

Desired Experience

• Demonstrated ability to sanitize and automate a rapidly growing global system.
• Deep expertise with operational support systems, automation, and CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies.
• Knowledge in a variety of programming languages including Python, C, C++, Go.
• Experience with modern cloud and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, KVM, OpenNebula, OpenStack, or any orchestration platforms).
• Track record for providing valuable technical details to developers and engineers.
• Track record for providing valuable feedback during the planning and implementation of existing projects.

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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.